In just one day, Chen Mu finished writing everything he needed to write.
The length and width of the paper are the same as those of ordinary books. I wrote nearly a hundred pages and about 40,000 words.
The story is still the same as what I saw on TV in my previous life. I have read so many versions on TV in my previous life. In Chen Mu’s eyes, this storyline is very cliche and boring.
However, if placed in the current social context, this novel and strange work about the love between humans and ghosts will definitely be unprecedented once it is published.
Everyone likes to fantasize, but which poor scholar who studies hard day and night has never imagined that there is a beautiful woman who is devoted to him and has no regard for his family background and ability, lighting a lamp and studying ink for him late at night?
After sorting out the pages of the book, Chen Mu put four big characters on the cover - A Chinese Ghost Story.
Next, we have to start working on this movable type printing technology.
Generally speaking, it is not troublesome, but it is very time-consuming. My eldest brother knows how to do carpentry, so I can just let him carve the name plate when the time comes.
When everything was free, Chen Mu thought about the day carefully. When he saw that tomorrow was June 6th, he knew that he might have to return to the village today.
Because June 6th is the Tianzhu Festival, this festival is more important than the Spring Festival on New Year's Eve in the current Longxia Dynasty.
It's not that Chen Mu followed the local customs when he came to his hometown, it was because the current imperial court required that he must observe this festival, otherwise it would be regarded as violating the national law.
As for why there are such painful regulations, it all starts with the current emperor Liu Guang.
Decades ago, the northern grassland tribes invaded the Longxia border for the first time. It can be seen that when this dynasty was founded, it stipulated that military generals must be controlled by literature.
To put it simply, a group of generals are fighting on the front line. They need to report to the civilian officials who come to supervise them first, and let the civilian officials make decisions on how to send out troops.
If you let a person engaged in internal affairs control the entire battlefield, the consequences are needless to say.
Finally, out of desperation, Liu Guang signed an agreement with the Tatars and emptied most of the national treasury to compensate the Tatars. This gave him a long period of peace.
This treaty was originally a treaty that was humiliating and humiliating the country. Instead of being ashamed of it, this guy was proud of it. In the end, he even lied that God had given him the Book of Heaven and used it to go to Mount Tai to become a Buddhist monk.
Which emperor can be enshrined in Mount Tai without having unparalleled merit? It can be said that this guy has single-handedly lowered the level of enshrined in Mount Tai.
After that, the Tianzhu Festival came into being. Maybe Liu Guang himself felt guilty, so he forced the people to celebrate happily on June 6th.
Failure to comply is illegal.
Near noon, Chen Mu returned to the village.
Meeting those fellow villagers along the way is like a mouse meeting a cat, and they will go out of their way to meet them.
"Chen Mu is back, stay away..."
"Fortunately, I didn't cause any trouble before. I might have been liquidated together that night."
He was afraid that he had killed Shopkeeper Liu, and these villagers should have known about it, but with Qi Zeguang on top, he didn't worry about what a few villagers would do to him.
Soon Chen Mu returned home again.
The building of the house is not complicated. It is a common wooden wooden house in farmhouses. Now there is not much foundation laid, and only the roof has not been started yet.
There was still a person in the yard holding a plane and constantly scraping the wooden planks.
After taking a closer look at the face, it turned out to be Carpenter Zhang from the east end of the village. He must have been invited by his eldest brother to help.
At that moment, Chen Mu stepped forward and said hello: "Uncle Zhang, are you here to help?"
Hearing the sound, Carpenter Zhang turned his head first, but when he saw Chen Mu's face, he took two steps back as if he had seen a ghost.
That night, the Liu family went to the Chen family to cause trouble. They thought the Chen family would be tortured, but who could have expected that in the end the government would come to arrest them.
All the people who caused the trouble were sent to the front line, and even more so, when the body of shopkeeper Liu was dug out, all the flesh on his face was peeled off except for his eyeballs.
If they hadn’t seen Shopkeeper Liu’s miserable condition with their own eyes, how could they believe that it was the skinny scholar who peeled it all off with his own eyes?
Carpenter Zhang forced a smile: "Haha... Xiaomu is back."
Chen Muchai was about to answer, but unexpectedly, the next moment Liu Si tied an apron on and trotted out of the kitchen.
"The boss is back."
Liu Si's face was full of smiles, but Chen Mu suddenly discovered that since that night, Liu Si's breasts and other areas had gradually become plumper.
Even during the day, Chen Mu's mouth felt dry when he watched it, and he wished it would get dark immediately.
But I don’t know if it’s because of the good food or because the guy has nourishing effect.
As for lunch, which was a simple meal of two meat and one vegetable, Carpenter Zhang and his elder brother were planning to lay the roof in the afternoon while eating.
His tone was cautious, and he glanced at himself from time to time, for fear that something might happen suddenly.
The movement was bigger, and the old man even dodged to the side, as if he wanted to stab him to death with a chopstick.
It seems that the murder of shopkeeper Liu has brought a lot of shadow to the whole village.
After eating, Chen Mu followed the two of them to build a roof. The eldest brother was on the roof, while the two of them were passing wooden boards upwards.
Just like this, a busy afternoon passed. After Chen Mu handed over the last piece of wood, he sat on the ground and gasped. He was really tired.
After a while, Carpenter Zhang packed up his tools and left: "Well... Xiaomu, the house has been repaired, it's time for me to go back."
After saying that, he hurriedly walked out of the courtyard. Seeing his relieved look, Chen Mu quickly stopped him.
"etc."
Hearing the sound, Zhang Carpenter was stunned for a moment, then turned around and smiled forcefully: "Haha, Xiaomu...what's wrong?"
Chen Mu stepped forward and took out two taels of silver ingots from his bag and stuffed them into his hand.
"Uncle Zhang has worked hard these days. This little money is just a token of appreciation."
"Xiaomu, you..."
Seeing this silver, Zhang Carpenter's eyes instantly became hot. It was clear that two taels of silver was enough to feed his family's snacks for several months, but with so much money, how could he dare to collect it randomly?
Chen Mu smiled and said, "Uncle, please keep it at ease. I'll probably have to ask you for help in a few days."
Seeing that he didn't mean to joke, Zhang Carpenter couldn't resist the temptation and accepted it.
"As long as I can help, Xiaomu, just come to my house and give me a shout."
After Carpenter Zhang happily left with the money, the eldest brother finished nailing the roof, and then came to Chen Mu with a face of pain.
"I said, you kid, you started to complain when you had two taels of silver, didn't you? You gave away a whole two taels of silver just like that?"
Chen Mu gave his elder brother a blank look, and then threw the drawing with movable type printing in his bag in front of him.
"We don't give it for free. The main reason is that it takes a lot of work to make this thing, and one person may not be able to do it."
Chen Jianghe was still holding back a sense of anger, but after seeing this drawing, his expression suddenly froze!
"This...your boy..."
Chen Jianghe was more and more shocked as he looked at it. It was actually not difficult to make a printing plate. All you had to do was carve out the template manually.
But even for this seemingly simple thing, no one could have thought of it for thousands of years. Just copying it manually would be time-consuming and laborious.
Think about it, if we really get rid of these things, I'm afraid that the entire copying industry will disappear overnight.
Chen Jianghe took a deep look at Chen Mu. First he was appreciating paintings, and now he is doing this so-called printing. With such talent and wisdom, is the person in front of him... still his younger brother?