Chapter 92 Rumors and the Snowman
There are no shortage of visionary people in every era.
These visionary people see more futures than other mediocre people, and these people can often lead an era.
As a time traveler, Lin Zhao may not be much smarter than other people in this world, but he must have seen it for a long time than people in another world. It is natural for him to realize the importance of the media, but Lin Jian is different.
As a "local", Lin Jian can see the potential and importance of this new career in advance after seeing these booklets. This is his extraordinary feature.
Lin Zhao lowered his head and thought for a while, then sighed with emotion: "Uncle Qi, this is a powerful tool. It is easy to persevere and harm oneself. You must use it with caution."
"No matter what, this thing needs to be done first."
Lin Jian put down the teacup in his hand and said, "The thing that Chang'an City lacks the most is smart people. It won't take long to find out about this industry. We must be ahead of others and hold this thing in our hands."
"I'm not going to use it to hurt people, I just first write a booklet for publishing articles to communicate with scholars all over the world."
Lin Jian reached out to add a cup of tea to Lin Zhao, and said with a smile: "This is also what I, the future sacrificial wine of the Imperial College, should do."
Lin Zhao picked up the tea and took a sip, then said, "This thing can be done, but after Uncle Qi enters Chang'an, he will try his best to take this thing into the official business. The people are not allowed to privately print and distribute current affairs. Otherwise, this thing will easily be used to do evil and will have a lot of harm."
Lin Yuanda nodded solemnly.
"I've recorded it. After returning to Chang'an, the first thing I do is to do this thing. Then there are many places to ask Sanlang for your help."
"My nephew deserves it."
The uncle and nephew discussed in the study for more than half an hour, and it was not until the evening that Lin Zhao walked out of the Daiyuan.
In the next few days, there was indeed a circulating news that Lin Zhao was going to study in Chang'an City. The somewhat indignant Lin family did not dare to go to Daiyuan to find Lin Jian, so they went to the great master Lin Sizheng to make a noise. After the noise was fruitless, some people would come to find Lin Zhao's trouble.
Some of them were bad-minded and threatened to crippled Lin Zhao so that he would never be able to study in Chang'an.
Fortunately, Lin Zhao got angry with Lin Jian in advance. After the news reached Lin Yuanda's ears, the new master was furious and immediately announced that if there was another person in the Lin family going to find Lin Zhao's trouble, no Lin family can go to the Imperial Academy from now on.
With Lin Jian's tough statement, naturally no one from the Lin family dared to come and find Lin Zhao again. However, because of this, the Lin family began to spread the news that Lin Zhao was Lin Jian's illegitimate son. This news spread from the Lin family to Xingwenfang, and even several nearby yards began to spread it.
After learning the news, before Lin Yuanda was angry, Lin Sizheng, the eldest master of the Lin family, was already furious.
Scholars value reputation the most, especially when it comes to such gossip news, which can easily be widely spread. If it is spread to Chang'an City, it will affect Lin Jian's official reputation.
Lin Sizhi thoroughly investigated the family and finally found several Lin family members who spread rumors. One of them was a scholar who had just won the title a few years ago. Master Lin was angry and drove these people out of the Lin family and removed his name from the family tree.
Fortunately, this rumor was not widely circulated. After the Lin family came forward to refute the rumor, it soon ended in nothing.
Time flies very quickly. In a blink of an eye, it has reached the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month of the seventh year of Gande, and there is only half a month left before the New Year.
Yuezhou City, which did not snow much in previous years, unexpectedly fell heavily this year, and the entire Yuezhou was covered with a thick layer of snow.
Because the Chinese New Year is about to be held, many shops on the street have been closed and no longer open. The streets are extremely quiet, and everyone is hiding at home and not going out much.
However, Xie Sanyuan, the Xie family in the east of the city, left the house early in the morning. The lead type he had worked hard these days has made some progress. Boss Xie was extremely excited and devoted himself to it.
Because of heavy snow, the cold-fearing girl Xie only went out in the morning to take a look at the snow scene and hid back to the stove at home. In the past six months, the Xie family has earned a lot of money with Lin Zhao, and the conditions have become much more abundant. The torches at home can burn from morning to late.
Mrs. Xie has even begun to think about moving out of this house next year and living in a big house.
In the afternoon, Miss Xie lay beside the window of her boudoir, baking the stove at her hand. Occasionally, she opened the window and looked at the snow outside. Just when she opened the window for the third time, she suddenly heard a rustling sound outside. Xie Danran curiously stretched out her head and looked at it. She saw a boy wearing a thick fur clothes, like a bear, waving at Xie Danran in the heavy snow outside the window.
"Sister Thank you!"
When the country was first founded in the early Zhou Dynasty, fur clothes were the mainstream of keeping cold in winter. However, I don’t know when this kind of fur clothes was disliked by the upper class, thinking that wearing animal skins was worn by barbarians and Hu clothes, and was deeply hated by many old men.
Therefore, the upper class scholars do not wear fur clothes very much. In winter, they usually wear brocade robes with silk cotton inside.
Therefore, in winter, fur clothes are more worn by people like Lin Zhao, who have some money but no social status.
At this time, Lin Zhao was wearing a fur coat and wrapped himself tightly, looking very warm.
"Sister Xie, come out quickly-"
He shouted at Xie Danran's window in the heavy snow.
Xie Danran hurriedly closed the window. He didn't want to pay attention to Lin Zhao, but when she thought it was still snowing outside, she gritted her teeth, took out a small jacket from the closet and put it on her body, and then took out an oil paper umbrella, opened the paper umbrella and broke into the wind and snow.
She took a small step and walked under her window, looking at Lin Zhao: "It snowed so heavily, why are you doing outside if you are not in the house?"
"If you are frozen, Aunt Lin should feel distressed."
Lin Sanlang smiled and said, "Does Sister Xie feel sorry?"
"What do I feel sorry for?"
Xie Danran snorted lowly and was about to pull Lin Zhao into the room to hide from the snow. Lin Sanlang shook his head, grabbed Xie Danran's hand, and pulled her out.
Xie Danran's strength was far less powerful than Lin Zhao's. He could only be pulled out of the Xie family by Lin Zhao. Fortunately, there were no one on the road at this time. Xie Danran gritted his teeth and whispered: "What are you doing?"
"I'll take my sister to see something."
Lin Zhao walked in front and pulled Xie Danran. The two of them walked about dozens of steps, turned around an alley, and came to an open space.
At this time, half of the white snow on this open space was gathered in one place, and it was piled up into a snowman that was one person tall. The snowman had two branches as his hands, and a big radish was inserted into its head and turned into its nose.
When it comes to heavy snow in this era, snow lions usually come out, and there has never been a snowman. Xie Danran had never seen this thing before, so he immediately asked blankly: "Sanlang, what is this?"
"This is called a snowman."
Lin Zhao pointed to the snowman who was about the same height as Xie Danran and said, "This is sister, I piled it up for an hour before I piled it up."
Xie Danran tilted his head, looked at the round-headed guy curiously, and then frowned slightly.
"How come this is like me? I'm not so fat..."
Lin Zhao left Xie Danran's umbrella, ran into the snow again, and began to roll another snowball. He said while rolling: "Sister is standing here alone and I'm here to accompany my sister."
Xie Danran was holding up a paper umbrella with forehand and looked at the tall snowman. After hearing Lin Zhao's words, her eyes turned red.
Of course she understood that Lin Zhao was leaving after the New Year, so he made this round-headed thing to make him happy.
She wiped her tears with her sleeves, then threw the paper umbrella in her hand aside, walked to Lin Zhao in small steps, and let out a breath of white breath from her mouth.
"I'll help you."
Lin Zhao agreed happily, raised his head and smiled brightly at Xie Danran.
"OK."
On that day, in the snow, the boy and girl formed another round snowman under a big tree in Yuezhou City.
The next morning, the sun broke through the clouds, and the sun shone on the city of Yuezhou, shining on the two snowmen.
Chapter completed!