"I worked hard to change the lyrics for Twelve Rains, let them practice their posture, breath, and stage moves, and promoted them from the top names in Tingyu Xiaozhu to the celebrities in the capital. Now someone actually takes this "
"Jin Ling Yan" was written into a book, printed and sold? And suddenly it was distributed all over the city? This is so disrespectful of me, Lu Sanlang! This is simply a provocation and a slap in the face!"
In Sansan Bookstore, Lu Sanlang was furious. Under his spittle flying everywhere, the several stewards were too angry to say a word, and as for the "imperial" writers, they were even less afraid to speak.
Because just now, Lu Sanlang scolded them. The reason was very simple. The legend of "Jinling Yan" that was given to them to write had been revised several times over and over again, but none of the drafts could satisfy them.
Lu Sanlang was completely satisfied. In the words of Little Fatty Lu, it was that they could never get rid of the problem of writing too many erotic articles, and they always liked the plot and the sex scenes!
At this moment, the livid-faced Lu Sanlang picked up the first volume of "Jinling Yan" he had just bought, and slapped it twice on the table: "Look at his writing style, look at his plot, you are better than others.
You should have started early, right? Now you have been overtaken by this guy who doesn’t know who he is. Isn’t it embarrassing? Are you worthy of the high salary I gave you?"
The few scholars who were scolded by Lu Sanlang wanted to escape into the small dark room with their heads hanging down. At this time, only one person whispered: "That's not because the lines written by Twelve Rains are too simple and not very good.
This time, the first volume of "Jinlingyan", although I don't know which enemy is the author, but I definitely hired a powerful person to do it. The writing is excellent, the layout is exquisite, and I don't know how much money it cost."
"I haven't spent a lot of money!" But after hearing what a certain scholar said next, Lu Sanlang suddenly became angry.
"Sir, the play you rehearsed was originally called "The Peach Blossom Fan", but later because it was purely fabricated, Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty was changed to Jinling, and the dynasty was changed from the Southern Song Dynasty to the fuzzy Jinling, but the story was written in the Song Dynasty.
That is certain.”
"Nowadays, "Jinlingyan" is even more explicit. It vividly depicts the generals who were favored by the Southern Song Dynasty emperor but surrendered when their troops crossed the border. It also vividly depicts the civil servants who fought on the front lines, fought with each other behind the scenes, and dragged the generals in front to retreat.
But he wrote a few singers as tough as nails. Tell me, can we publicize it and say that this is a satire on the civil and military ministers of my country?"
"Stupid! How stupid! If this gets too big, Twelve Rains from Tingyu Xiaozhu will also be swept in. Can they still perform this drama?"
Lu Sanlang suddenly jumped up again. He knew from the beginning that the so-called civil and military forces harmed the country and the singer saved the country was a false proposition. When Zhang Shou told him this story at that time, he hinted that he would combine the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties with
The stories of Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu can also be grafted onto it. In short, you can make it as vague as you want.
So gradually, "The Peach Blossom Fan" became "Jinling Yan". At this moment, he quickly thought about whether there was a conspiracy behind this matter, but the more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and the more he thought about it, the more unwilling he was, and in the end he couldn't bear it.
He couldn't help but slap the table hard.
"I don't care about all this mess. I just want to know who stole the crystallization of my hard work..."
At this time, he suddenly heard a weak voice: "Sir, we sold two volumes of legends a few days ago. One volume is "Die Lian Hua" in which Zhang Tao and Zhu Qian fell in love at first sight and finally became a couple of gods and immortals after going through many twists and turns.
", one volume is about a domineering father who favors his second son but achieves nothing, the third son counterattacks and becomes the number one scholar, and the father is ashamed of himself. I wonder if..."
When the thin scholar who spoke saw Lu Sanlang suddenly looking over, his voice suddenly became even softer: "Could it be that your teacher and your father found out, so..."
"Don't think so wildly!" Lu Sanlang's expression changed. Although he stopped the crowd immediately, he couldn't help but feel a little upset in his heart, but he still said stubbornly, "It's just a few hundred copies each, a legend for idlers to read and kill time.
That's all, my father and young gentleman are busy people, so how can they have time to read this! Besides, they have never printed a book, so there is no reason to suddenly steal my business."
Other bookshops all use engravings, so they can only print old-fashioned things like the Four Books and Five Classics. As for movable type, the typesetters are limited, so they can only accept some anthologies of eight-legged essays that someone will definitely buy. But he has spent money since he started running the bookshop.
I have well maintained a group of typesetting workers, so even if I only print dozens or hundreds of copies of the book, I can publish it. If the sales are good, I will continue it, and if the sales are not good, I will cut it in half.
Therefore, he did not believe that Lu Wan and Zhang Shou would spend money to fight with him for such a free time because of two volumes of nonsense legends.
So, after refuting this nonsense speculation, Lu Sanlang sternly ordered several writers to go back to retreat, and must write a better draft than the "Jinling Yan" he had at hand as soon as possible. After a few people became dejected,
He then issued a death order to the shopkeeper below, no matter what method he used, he would dig out the mastermind behind it.
And his all-pervasive subordinates are indeed very efficient. Before the deadline in the afternoon, the conclusive news has been sent to him. This volume of "Jinling Yan" has only one signed author - Tang. This author
Tang Dynasty was invited by Lu Wan to the Public School as a guest lecturer a few months ago. He took the Shuntian Prefecture Examination and the Explanation of Yuan and Tang Ming inscriptions in his previous subject.
However, Lu Sanlang was not the most dumbfounded to know that this person who had offended Zhang Shou like Xie Wanquan also went to a public school.
What surprised him the most was that those who participated in printing the book were a special typesetting class set up after the public school was divided into classes, and it was said that the teacher, Old Man Yan, himself carved the wood movable type, and the other students were responsible for the wheel typesetting. In short, from the manuscript to the publication
, it is said that it did not take many days!
And Old Man Yan is from Zhang Yuan! He who prides himself on being smart was actually tricked by his father and teacher!
Although he had sworn in front of the hired writers before that his father and his teacher would never have the time to play this kind of drama with him, but now that it was truly proven, Lu Sanlang completely withered. He was not afraid of offending his father, anyway.
Since he was a child, he has never had an arrogant father once or twice, and he is not afraid of offending Zhang Shou, because Zhu Ying likes the volume "Die Lian Hua" very much.
But now the problem is, he offended his father and his teacher at the same time, and these two people have joined forces. What can he do?
So, the little fat man, who was full of fear, thought about it and decided to move the savior. When he found out that Zhu Ying was visiting the house of Liu Shilang of the Ministry of Industry this afternoon, obviously to meet his fiancée, he simply went to Liu's house shamelessly to post a message
Asking for an audience. As a result, when this invitation came in, the Liu family, whose owner Liu Shilang was not at home, was naturally in a panic.
Mrs. Liu was surprised when her future son-in-law suddenly came; and Liu Qing was even more surprised when her fiancé came to visit her like this; as for the fact that the little fat man not only asked to see his future mother-in-law and fiancée, but also hooked up with someone who asked to see her, Zhu Ying was completely confused.
, but finally persuaded Mrs. Liu to come forward to meet people.
Although it stands to reason that this is completely against the rules, the rules have already been broken when the marriage between Lu Sanlang and Liu Qing was finalized. In addition, Mrs. Liu also met the little fat man several times when she visited the Lu family.
, I had no choice but to agree.
When she saw the fat and somewhat arrogant young man entering the house with great momentum - the mother-in-law couldn't help but become more and more happy the more she looked at her son-in-law - so after people saluted and raised their hands to signal to sit aside, she heard her son-in-law propose
made a request that caught her a little off guard.
"Auntie, I have something urgent to ask of you. Can you please turn away everyone?"
She was used to hearing Lu Sanlang's address of shortening the distance when he came up. Mrs. Liu was just stunned for a moment. Seeing that the only person sitting beside her was Zhu Ying, and her daughter had already hid behind the screen. She thought for a moment, after all, she should let her confidant mother
She went down with the girls, and specifically told them to stay away. Anyway, with Zhu Ying's strength far surpassing that of the little fat man, she wouldn't worry about Lu Sanlang having any evil thoughts.
But not long after the servants went out, she saw Lu Sanlang pushing the golden mountain and knocking down the jade pillar. He knelt down and hugged her knee. Then he cried loudly: "Auntie, you and Sister Qing must save me."
Ah! I offended my father and my little teacher so badly that they teamed up to dig a bottomless pit for me!"
Liu Qing, who was behind the screen, cursed the damn little fat man in her heart for saying "Sister Qing", while Mrs. Liu was shocked when she heard that Lu Sanlang had offended his father and teacher at the same time. As for Zhu Ying...she stared wide-eyed.
He stared at Lu Sanlang, then frowned and asked: "Lu Sanpang, don't be miserable! Why would Ah Shou join forces with your father to deceive you when he is fine?"
Lu Sanlang was overjoyed when he saw that Mrs. Liu didn't refuse to hold his thigh. Zhu Ying didn't immediately raise her eyebrows, but was obviously teasing. Knowing that they were not angry, he was overjoyed and had to hurry up.
He told the story of how Lu Wan and Zhang Shou joined forces, each performed his own duties, and secretly printed a volume of "Jinling Yan" all over the city to steal his business.
Seeing that Mrs. Liu couldn't laugh or cry, and Zhu Ying had a sneer on her face, he said pitifully: "A book is a small matter, but if my father and Mr. Xiao join forces, it will be a big deal. I think about it.
, it must be because the few writers under me who were not afraid of making trouble secretly wrote two books that alluded to them, so they were angry."
"But it's such a pity that I didn't know at all!" The little fat man said, calling out to Zhu Ying, and then he glanced at Zhu Ying and said, "I didn't know until later that "Die Lian Hua" was written by Xiao Lian Hua.
The one written by my husband and my junior wife, "A Better than a Young Master," is about me and my father!"
At this moment, Zhu Ying was completely sure that the little fat man was telling nonsense. However, Lu Sanlang directly called Liu Qing's mistress loudly in front of Liu Qing, because of his shamelessness, and the fact that she had read the sweet book before.
The eldest lady decided to persuade Zhang Shou to let him go in case what the little fat man said was true.
And Liu Qing, who was behind the screen, finally couldn't help but show up and said angrily: "Lu Sanpang, you have the nerve to say that! The book "The Young Master is Better Than the Old" printed in your bookshop described your father as a stubborn old man.
Now, your father is not allowed to teach you a lesson?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she noticed that two eyes suddenly fell on her face. When she saw that it was her mother, Mrs. Liu, she couldn't help but scream inwardly.
She peeked at those legends in private without saying a word, and she didn't show off in front of her own mother!
Mrs. Liu was very angry and funny at the same time. What made her laugh was that it was unheard of for her future son-in-law to be angry with his father and teachers. What made her angry was that her daughter had actually seen the messy books printed by Lu Sanlang's bookstore!
Of course, the bookstore owned by Lu Sanlang had confessed to her a long time ago. Not only was the bookstore quite famous in the capital, Lu Sanlang also honestly revealed to her in private the wealth he had accumulated over the years with his fingers, and even
He didn't even hide the fact that he once had a share in Tingyu Xiaozhu because of his friendship with Weinan Bo Zhang Kang, and then returned to the business.
It is precisely because of this that Mrs. Liu, who was initially very dissatisfied with the marriage chosen by her husband and disgusted with Little Fatty Lu, gradually changed her view of the future son-in-law. Now she is even with Zhu Ying's grandmother and mother.
Looks like Zhang Shou, no matter how pleasing the little fat guy is.
So, she coughed and said seriously: "It's not a big deal if someone down there randomly wrote two books. Just go to your father and your teacher and explain it clearly! You, you have always been too clever, and you always make simple mistakes.
If you want to make things complicated, I think you are trapping yourself in a cocoon!"
"Based on your teacher's trust in you, even if he worked with your father to create the manuscript, printed the book and started selling it, how can you say that he must have dug a hole to bury you? Such a situation
Now that you have trained a lot of skilled workers, where is the best place to put them to use? Of course it is most suitable to put them in your bookshop, maybe it is to expand the influence of your bookshop in the future."
"Leave the existing stove unused and build a new one? They are your father and teacher, not enemies! Maybe they are just waiting for you to go to them and apologize for your sins. Please speak clearly!"
Lu Sanlang originally wanted to ask for his future mother-in-law and fiancée, but secretly he wanted to ask Zhu Ying for advice, but he never thought that Zhu Ying didn't even speak, but Mrs. Liu's words spoke to his heart!
He slapped his head hard and shouted loudly: "Auntie, you really woke up the dreamer with just one word... You are closer than my own mother!"
Seeing the chubby Lu Sanlang get up in one go, and then turn around and run out, Mrs. Liu couldn't laugh or cry, and immediately shouted: "Slow down, don't fall. This little fat guy, for how old he is, is still so unstable.
Get married!"
And Liu Qing was also dumbfounded by Lu Sanlang's explicit words that you are more dear to me than my own mother. When she saw Zhu Ying suddenly frowned when she heard the word "marriage", she couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Sister Yingying, is it possible?"
Dr. Zhang has neglected you recently?"
"How is that possible?"
Zhu Ying smiled softly, and then said with some trepidation: "I suddenly thought of what I heard when I entered the palace this morning. Some people said that the eldest prince and the second prince are old enough and should marry a concubine. I thought about marrying a girl from a good family.
If you give it to them, you will really be in a pit of fire!"
Seeing Liu Qing's face suddenly turned pale, she knew that she was thinking of the past when she was considered as the candidate for the second prince's concubine by the second prince, so she was humiliated in the street. She shook the little girl's hand, and then said with a smile:
"I heard that someone wrote a letter before he arrived in the capital, requesting that the previous prince's selection of concubines be completed so that he could produce royal heirs. I really want to ask why his daughter is not married?"
"If you want to boast of unparalleled benevolence, you must first have Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's determination that if I don't go to hell, no one will go to hell!"