Fuzhou has a lot of water, and there are many large and small river branches, ranging from one thousand to eight hundred.
If there is more water, there will be more stories. Water ghosts and water monsters all sound the same, carved out of the same mold.
To ordinary people, the story of the Red Mansion Shipyard is just one of thousands of ghost stories related to water, and basically anyone can tell a few stories about it.
Only some aristocratic families know that the Red Mansion Shipyard is actually not a story, but a fact buried by time.
Eighty years ago, a dancing girl named Lin Yingying came out of Fuzhou. In her 28th year, she was proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Within one year of her debut, she defeated the seniors from the north and the south and won the first place in the Jiangnan Oiran Competition.
Lin Yingying's mount is a red lucky boat.
The ship is ninety-six feet long, which is thirty-two meters in modern terms. It has its own theater troupe, and getting on the ship is just like going upstairs. There are three floors of lofts on the ship, and it can accommodate thirty to fifty people at a time.
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Because the boat was big enough and bright red, it looked like a loft on the river from a distance, so everyone called it the Red Mansion Shipyard.
Fuzhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and boating on the lake has been popular for a long time. The local brothels are 30% on the shore and 70% on the water.
In the evening, what I see most when I go out is the young lady standing on the boat, waving handkerchiefs.
As the place where courtesans live, the Red Mansion Boat Shop has the best business. According to records, those who can go to the Red Mansion Boat Shop are either rich or noble, poor scholars who can only dance and write, and cannot even get in.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, as a sudden fire burned away all the glory of this world.
Including Lin Yingying, the theater troupe, maids, worldly wealthy people, boatmen, chefs, and hundreds of other people were all burned to death on the river, and not even their bodies were found.
Since then, the Red Mansion Shipyard has appeared every ten years.
All those who do not know what is going on and get on board in a daze will end up missing. The only exception is Mr. Shi Taigong thirty years ago.
Shi Taigong is an honorific title that came into being later. At that time, everyone called him Shi Laoer. He was a famous prodigal son in the neighborhood.
At that time, there were more than a dozen people who went to the Red Mansion Boat Boat, and Shi Taigong was one of them.
He is the only survivor in decades, and he is also the person who changed the Red Mansion Shipyard from being feared by everyone to being both loved and feared.
I'm afraid it's easy to explain. The Red Mansion Shipyard has been burned down for decades. Everyone is boarding a ghost ship. Who is not afraid?
Ai is a bit unexpected. After Shi Taigong escaped, he hid in his home for several months and was as scared as a turtle grandson.
As a result, after hiding for several months and seeing nothing happened, Shi Taigong became bolder.
Coincidentally, just after this incident, Shi Taigong's father and elder brother died on the road escorting grain to Jiangzhou because of an encounter with bandits. The huge family fortune was directly hit on Shi Taigong's head.
If the story only ends here, Shi Taigong's life will be better at best, and the Shi family's family fortune will be ruined in a few years.
What's weird is that after Shi Taigong took over the family business, although he was still a prodigal, the Shi family's business was booming, and it seemed that wealth was forcing people to come.
In just thirty years, Shi Jia went from being a local bully in the county town to becoming a county leader step by step.
In terms of the food industry alone, Shijia ranks among the top five in Fuzhou, and Shi Taigong has also changed from Shi Lao Er back then to Shi Taigong now.
Why Taigong Shi was able to reach this point can be summed up in one word: "Fate!"
As the saying goes, times make heroes. Lei Jun, the founder of a rice company, once said that as long as he stands in front of the wind, pigs can fly into the sky.
Shi Taigong is like Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump, and the silly young master in The Dust Has Settled, who has been fooling around all the way and then he is flying.
One time when Shi Taigong was drunk, someone asked him what was the secret of his success. Shi Taigong smiled and replied, "Red Mansion Shipyard".
Everyone went back to check, and sure enough, before entering the Red Mansion Shipyard, Shi Taigong was just a middle-aged man. Although it was not unlucky, his luck was not very good either.
After returning from the Red Mansion Shipyard, my luck immediately became astonishing. When encountering dangers, I would always turn them into good fortunes. Once or twice, I didn't think it was a big deal, but if it happened every time, it would be terrible.
His competitors would either have a fire in the warehouse for no apparent reason, or the housekeeper would collude with a concubine to steal the property and run away. In serious cases, someone would even collude with water bandits and be executed by the government.
Under the leadership of Shi Taigong, the Shi family prospered smoothly, and it was like a miracle.
Gradually, among aristocratic families, there is a saying that the Red Mansion Shipyard can change fortunes.
No one knows whether this is true or not. After all, only Shi Taigong was the only one who could come out after entering the Red Mansion Shipyard for decades.
But if you think about it carefully, this may actually be possible.
Wang Xu knows that different people have different luck. As the saying goes, one fate, two luck and three feng shui, what kind of achievements you can achieve is directly proportional to your destiny and luck.
In the movie world, the person with the highest luck in a world is the protagonist, and the person with less luck is the supporting actor.
There are all kinds of people below the main character and supporting characters.
The luck of these people may not be as good as that of the protagonists and supporting characters, but the best among them are also destined to be rich and powerful.
Of course, this statement only applies to worlds where the protagonist saves the world. Some worlds do not need the protagonist to save the world. The protagonist is just a witness of the great era. Although such people have high luck, they will not be the highest.
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For example, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, can you tell who among Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Qun is the protagonist and who is the supporting role?
It cannot be said that the main line of some worlds is the shining stars. Looking at the problem from one person or one thing is the wrong starting point.
What's more, there are also worlds dominated by tragedy, where the protagonist exists to prove what tragedy is.
In this kind of world, the protagonist's luck will definitely not be too high, or even lower than that of ordinary people.
He tortured the protagonist all the way, tortured him to death, and finally ended in tragedy. How can we deny his identity as the protagonist just because he is a hard worker?
To sum up, the protagonists can be divided into several categories, the Long Aotian type protagonist, the counterattack protagonist, the tragedy type protagonist, and the soy sauce type protagonist. The luck of the protagonist depends on the type and cannot be generalized.
Therefore, Wang Xu is very interested in the Red Mansion Shipyard, precisely because he has seen it more and can better understand the horror of good luck.
If Honglou Shipyard could help people change their fortunes, Wang Xu would have to have a hand in it to find out what was wrong with it.
However, although Wang Xu thinks so, he cannot guarantee whether this matter will come true.
The word "luck" describes all the famous people in ancient and modern times. As the saying goes, heaven and earth all work together to transport heroes without freedom. Changing luck is never a simple matter.
Although Wang Xu is not talented, his subordinates directly or indirectly control more than a dozen earths, and his words and deeds can change the fate of hundreds of billions of people.
Taken together, his luck will never be too low. If he is considered a local aborigine, his luck should be able to surpass that of the aboriginal protagonist in a small world.
After all, after three days of separation, you should treat each other with admiration. Everyone is making progress. Wang Xu is no longer the bumpkin in the Harry Potter world who couldn't help but be happy when he saw magic.
"Someone is coming!"
Wang Xu put down the secret fold and shouted without raising his head.
"Sir, what are your orders?" Two guards in golden clothes walked in from the door, one on the left and one on the right, clasping their fists and asking.
"check!"
Wang Xu threw the secret folder forward and said coldly: "Within three hours, I want to know where the 27 people on the list disappeared and what common characteristics they have. The more detailed the better."
"I humbly accept my order!"
The two of them responded one after another, picked up the secret folder thrown by Wang Xu, and went to work wholeheartedly.
Wang Xu poured himself a cup of tea. He believed that these two people would go all out to get things done.
Because opportunities are rare, and every opportunity represents an opportunity. Who among the lower-ranking people working next to the higher-ranking person does not want to grab the pole and climb up?