Tang Ning originally wanted to write a chapter every day for Tang Yaoyao to read and relieve her boredom, but she couldn't help Tang Yaoyao's pleading and reluctantly told her the story of "The Romance of the West Chamber" overnight.
Halfway through, he realized something was wrong.
From an artistic point of view, this is a description of ancient youth breaking through feudal secular thoughts and expressing the desire of young men and women for love. The plot is fascinating, the images are vivid and vivid, the writing is brilliant, and it is very poetic and picturesque. But to really talk about it, this is just talking about poverty.
The story of a scholar who climbed over a wall to steal a young lady.
Tang Ning was very sensitive to things like circumventing the wall, and was worried that Tang Yaoyao might think that he was hinting or insinuating something. After he finished speaking, he realized that his worries were unnecessary. Tang Yaoyao had not thought about it at all.
Thinking about it, after all, it was Tang Yaoyao who climbed over the wall, not him, so this is not an innuendo at all.
But Fairy Tang's behavior still needs to be condemned.
How can you put a sword on someone's neck to urge them to watch? It depends on whether he will tell her stories in the future. When she is bored, she can find a way to relieve her boredom.
He spent a day copying several manuscripts of the first chapter of "The Romance of the West Chamber". After breakfast the next day, he borrowed a cloak from Shopkeeper Xu. When he and Peng Chen went out, Tang Yaoyao came from behind.
Followed.
She followed Tangning and asked, "What are you doing so mysteriously?"
Tangning said casually: "I have to go out for something, so just stay in the Red Sleeve Pavilion. There is no need to follow me."
Tang Yaoyao looked at him and asked, "Do you want to go to Tiantianju to meet that fox?"
Tangning thought for a while and said, "If you want to follow, then you can."
He was going to do business this time, not to steal a fox. The reason why he was dressed like this was because of other considerations.
The capital was the capital of Chen State, the most prosperous city in Chen State, and the center of politics and commerce.
What Tang Ning is going to go to today is the Western District of the capital, where there are many shops and countless merchants gather.
He walked to the roadside, stopped a woman carrying a vegetable basket, and asked, "Madam, how can I get to the bookstore here?"
"Bookstore?" The woman looked at him, shook her head and said, "There is no bookstore here."
Tangning asked in surprise: "Isn't this the West Market? How could there be no bookstore?"
"Not only is there no bookstore here, there is no aunt either." The woman glanced at him and left with a vegetable basket in her arms.
While Tang Ning was stunned, Peng Chen walked over from the front and said, "I found the bookstore."
Movable type printing has been around for a long time, and it has developed to a very mature level today. Book publishing in the capital is very developed. What Peng Chen found was not a bookshop, but a street of bookshops.
There are more than ten bookshops, large and small, on both sides of the street.
Tangning first walked along the street, finally selected a medium-sized store and walked in.
A clerk was sitting in the shop. When he saw someone walking in, he looked up at him and asked: "Printing a book or submitting a manuscript?"
On weekdays, these bookstores will take on some private work, and they will also publish some books for sale, providing one-stop production and sales. Large bookstores will have some regular writers writing for them, and they will also accept submissions from others.
In order to avoid plagiarism, you only need to bring out some of the exciting content when submitting.
Tangning hid her body in her cloak and said in a hoarse voice, "Submit."
The guy pointed to a table and said, "Leave it alone. You can leave your address and wait for notification, or you can come here in five days to check the results."
Tang Ning placed the manuscript of the first chapter on the table, turned around and walked out of the bookstore.
He did not choose those shops that looked grand, nor those small shops. He chose five medium-sized bookstores and submitted the manuscript.
When he went back, Tang Yaoyao looked at him, curled his lips and said, "I thought it was something. Does such a trivial matter need to be so secretive?"
Naturally, Tang Yaoying didn't understand. Although "The Romance of the West Chamber" is wonderful, its subject matter is also very sensitive. In today's world of feudal ethics and strong defenses between men and women, whoever dares to advocate free love and steal a lady by climbing over the wall will be scolded to death by the great Confucians. Therefore, this book
The possibility of being harmonized is very high.
However, if there is a demand, there will be a market. There are many banned books on the market that are not allowed to be sold. Tang Ning has met several ladies who asked him to sell erotic novels. The more banned the books, the better the sales.
Of course, when people are wandering in the world, it is better to use a trumpet to save their lives. In order to avoid accidents, it is better to be cautious.
The world is dangerous and one must be on guard. He has not yet decided whether to use "Li Qing" as his pen name or simply "Wang Shifu".
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Jingshi West Market, Shufang Street.
In a bookstore somewhere, a clerk handed several manuscripts to a middle-aged man and said, "Sir, this is a manuscript that someone submitted. Please take a look first."
After the middle-aged man took it, he flipped through it casually, shook his head and said, "None of them are worth printing. We just happened to be out of paper in the latrine, so we'll send them all to you soon."
In the bookstore opposite, a man threw a manuscript aside and frowned: "Don't show me anything of this caliber in the future."
In another study room, the shopkeeper shook his head and said: "The good manuscripts have been taken away by those guys. At least some soup is left for us. Ah Fu, the table inside is a bit wobbly. Take this one and put it under the table."
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Songzhuzhai is located on Shufang Street in the West Market of the Capital. Although it is not as large as Baijuanlou and Wenhuatang, it is still small in scale.
At Songzhuzhai, the clerk handed over a stack of manuscripts and said, "Shopkeeper Peng, this is the manuscript submitted today."
After taking the manuscript, the shopkeeper with a good figure said: "It's too late to read it now, I'll read it when I get back."
He tucked the manuscript under his arm and walked out of the bookstore.
At the same time, Tang Ning has returned to Hongxiu Pavilion. He plans to write the entire "The Romance of the West Chamber" first. He is not worried that the book will not be published. Even if the shopkeepers of those bookstores are ignorant, they will always know what they are doing.
people.
If he wasn't worried about the risks, he would have invested his own money.
He was lying at the table writing a manuscript. Tang Yaoyao looked over and saw that she had read the manuscript yesterday. She looked away again and picked up a policy collection next to her, looked at it twice and then put it down.
Only boring people like Li Bolan would read such obscure things. The story she saw last night was interesting.
Tangning was writing a manuscript and walking around the room alone. At a certain moment, her footsteps suddenly stopped.
She walked slowly to the bed, lowered her head, picked up a long hair from the bed, and put it in front of her eyes to observe.
Tang Ning had just finished writing the second chapter when a sweet fragrance came from the side.
Tang Yaoyao stood beside him, looking straight at him.
Tangning looked at her and asked doubtfully, "What are you looking at me for?"
"Don't move." Tang Yaoyao came close to him and pulled out a hair from his head.
There was a stinging pain on her head. Tangning covered her head and said angrily, "What are you doing!"
Tang Yaoyao compared his hair with another hair, shook her head and said: "It's not your hair, how could there be a woman's hair on your bed?"
Tangning thought for a while, looked at her and asked, "You haven't forgotten that you slept in my bed the night before, right?"
Fairy Tang shook her head, "But when I woke up, I had already made the bed."
Tangning shook her head and said, "That's because you didn't notice."
Tang Yaoyao shook her head and said: "Impossible!"
Tangning stretched out her hand towards her head and said, "Then I'll pull out a piece of your hair and compare it yourself."
Fairy Tang hurriedly avoided it, flipped up her hair, and after comparing it carefully, she said, "It seems to be really mine."
Tangning wiped her forehead, nodded and said, "If you want to sleep in the future, remember to make the bed clean."
Fairy Tang glanced at her mouth and said, "Who cares about your broken bed..."
Tang Ning glanced at her and continued writing. She didn't care about it, but some people did...
Peng Mansion.
The Peng Mansion is located in the west district of the capital. Although it cannot be called a wealthy family, it can still be regarded as a small wealthy family. The family is engaged in printing business. There is a bookshop and several bookstores in the capital, and the family is considered to be well-off.
On the dining table, shopkeeper Peng looked around and asked, "Where's Xiaohe, why didn't you come out to eat?"
A woman said: "I just heard from the maid that she was reading in the room. Maybe she forgot the time. Cui'er, go call the lady and ask her to come over for dinner."
The maid responded and walked out quickly.
A quarter of an hour later, the woman raised her head and asked doubtfully: "Tui'er has been gone for so long, why hasn't she come back yet?"
She looked at the other maid and said, "Qin'er, go and see what's going on."
After another quarter of an hour, the woman stood up and said, "What's going on today? Master, eat first. I'll go see what Xiaohe and the others are doing."
A quarter of an hour later, Shopkeeper Peng put down his chopsticks, looked at the room where he was the only one left, and looked outside with a suspicious look on his face.
