Dongyu Tower.
Chen Yue arrived here in advance, and before he could sit down, he saw Zheng Jingren coming in a hurry. The two greeted each other with courtesy. After sitting down for a cup of tea, Ji Boying hurried over with a scholar and a policeman.
"This is Ma Quanma Xiucai, and the catcher's name is Tan Tianbo."
Ji Boying introduced the scholar and said, "You two were invited to come here to write a contract and be witnesses."
Ma Quan looks to be in his twenties, wearing a green shirt, fair and clean, with a shy smile. Chen Yue has also seen Tan Tianbo, and once came to Chen Yue's home with Xing Yishan. No words.
"Brother Chen."
Ji Boying pointed at Ma Quan and introduced Chen Yue emphatically: "You can rest assured of the contract written by brother Ma Quan, because what brother Ma Quan upholds is [sincerity]."
"Brother Ma Quan was born in Muzhu Village under Zhengyang Prefecture. There were jackals in his place. Brother Ma Quan often walked more than ten miles around barefoot to study. Because he was often late, the teacher thought that he was not sincere in his study. Then Ma Quan Brother Ma got up early, but encountered a pack of wolves on the long road. Brother Ma showed affection to the wolves and acted rationally. He said that he could not break the agreement with his husband and hoped that the wolves would come here to eat him at night and eat him during the day. Let him go first, maybe out of sincerity, the wolves were also influenced, and they dispersed to make way for Brother Ma."
"At night, Brother Ma calmly went to meet the wolves, and the wolves howled and dispersed in all directions."
"The wolf problem in Muzhu Village has been eliminated!"
Ji Boying told Chen Yue these legendary stories and said: "The first step in Confucian practice is to set a life motto. Brother Ma's motto is honesty, honesty to others and honesty to yourself."
Chen Yue looked at Ma Quan in surprise... This man is a bit awesome.
"This is Mr. Tan from the public sect, specially invited to testify."
Ji Boying introduced Tan Tianbo emphatically and said, "This man is also from the Martial Arts Hall."
Chen Yue smiled, looked at Tan Tianbo, and asked, "Master Tan, it's been so many days, have you caught Ma Ju?"
Tan Tianbo glanced at Chen Yue in surprise and said: "Ma Ju is very cunning. He was able to escape from the capital to Zhengyang and avoid being rounded up by countless masters along the way. He obviously has a method. After escaping from Brother Xing, he should be I don’t dare to take the lead anymore, there are a lot of official matters in the yamen, now we focus on other things.”
Chen Yue nodded, showing a look of regret... This look of regret was what Chen Yue had practiced many times in front of the mirror and in front of Chen Bo, and in his heart, Chen Yue had been thinking about the thousand taels, achieving the goal. Internal and external unity.
Now that the limelight has passed, Chen Yue can take the time to dump his body.
"Brother Chen, you are talented. You can rely on your talent to make a living. There is no need to regret the money that offends the devil."
Ji Boying expressed relief and asked Tan Tianbo: "Master Tan, is the Yamen preparing to deal with the Nether Sect recently?"
"Um."
Tan Tianbo picked up the tea bowl, hummed, and said, "This has nothing to do with you. Don't talk nonsense. Be careful of people from the Nether Sect coming to your door."
The Nether Sect is a major sect of demons with the longest inheritance. Some of the heroes Chen Bo told Chen Yue were the negative templates of the Nether Sect. However, despite continuous encirclement and suppression, the Nether Sect has never been extinguished, which shows the deep roots of the Nether Sect.
After some small talk, we finally got down to business.
"This is the "Lian Er Chun" I prepared."
Chen Yue took the initiative to take out the manuscript and said: "Because it is for printing, I thought it would be different from the serialization, so I re-wrote some things."
There are two relatively influential versions of Water Margin fans. One is serialized by Chen Yue on Jingu Shuxing. It is also known as the "embroidered portrait version". The first chapter is about Ximen Qingre's knotting of ten brothers. The other version is "Cihuaben", the first chapter of this version, is about Wu Song fighting the tiger.
Other than that, the plots are similar. Fifty-three of them are returned to the fifty-seventh chapter, and the poetry version is obviously more detailed. By the eightieth chapter, the poetry version includes Song Jiang, etc., while the embroidery version deletes it and uses To get rid of the shadow of Water Margin.
Now Chen Yue has thrown out two versions, one is serialized in Jingu Shuxing, and the other is published in Ji's Book Hall.
Ji Boying took the manuscript and looked at the first chapter. Looking at Wu Song's fight against the tiger, which was mentioned in the "serial version", and the detailed writing in this version, he couldn't help but sigh that Wu Song was indeed a hero.
And when looking at the beginning, the previous version had Lu Dongbin and Guan Yunchang, but in this version, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are mentioned first.
Xiang Yu's "Gaixia Song" says: "Strengthen the mountain with overwhelming energy, but the times are unfavorable and the spirit will never fade away." What can you do if your glory is not gone? What can you do if you are worried!
Liu Bang wrote that he was controlled by Empress Lu. After Liu Bang's death, Mrs. Qi was made a human pig.
"The beginning of this version is much more popular than that one."
After Ji Boying read it carefully, he felt that it was better than the serialized version, in which a group of Ximen officials were enjoying themselves in a fog, and it was easier for people to read.
"Then we will print twenty chapters first."
After Ji Boying read it thoroughly, he looked at Chen Yue and said, "If you could write annotations on it and annotate every [allusion] you wrote, this book would sell better."
In Ji Boying's view, the biggest problem with Chen Yue's novels is that he invented allusions.
"Have chance."
Chen Yue smiled and said, "These allusions will be explained slowly."
Among the twenty chapters published, the latter ten mainly involved Li Ping'er. After Hua Zixu died, Li Ping'er wanted to marry Ximen Qing, but Ximen Qing's first wife thought Hua Zixu was Ximen Qing's brother. Others would talk too much, so Ximen Qing should avoid it. Then something happened at Ximen Qing's home. The political struggle in Beijing implicated Ximen Qing. Bribery, Ximen Qing's name was changed to Jia Lian.
Li Ping'er couldn't wait for Ximen Qing for a long time and missed her so much that she became ill. A man from Jiang Zhushan came to treat Li Ping'er and then recommended himself. He even said that Ximen Qing's house was about to be confiscated, so Li Ping'er recruited Jiang Zhushan as his wife. As son-in-law.
This incident offended Ximen Qing. After Ximen Qing took care of the family affairs, he arranged for Jiang Zhushan to come back. Li Ping'er came in again. When he first entered, he was ignored. Li Ping'er couldn't bear it and even wanted to commit suicide. However, she was Ximen Qing hit him once, and the two of them reconciled.
Jia Lian and Lai Wang, these names also appear in Dream of Red Mansions.
"Brother Chen, come and take a look at the illustration I drew for you."
At this time, Zheng Jingren handed over the illustrations he had prepared.
Chen Yue came over to take a look and couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth... You really drew illustrations for me!
"I think the illustrations could be changed a bit."
Chen Yue said seriously to Zheng Jingren: "Anyone who reads books can draw such illustrations in the future. You are the closest to me as an author. You can definitely draw something that outsiders don't understand."
"It looks like... a picture of Guan Sheng Emperor."
Knowing that the road to literary sainthood is related to fame, Chen Yue is really ready to create a big IP.
