Chen Yue sat on the carriage and wandered to Prince Zhongyong's Mansion.
"When Emperor Taizu marched into Tianjing, my family stayed behind in Zhengyang. Later, when things happened, my family got a reward here in Zhengyang. However, it is all thanks to my father that we can have such a high gate and spacious courtyard."
On the way, Zhao Xiu introduced the situation at home to Chen Yue and said: "The demon saint attacked and the emperor left Tianjing, but my father rushed into Tianjing with a knife. Although in the end it was the most powerful living Buddha who killed the demon saint, but The emperor thought of my father's passion and gave me many rewards."
Zhao Xiu took Chen Yue through the door, passing through many corridors, rockeries, and ponds, and finally arrived at a spacious pavilion.
When Chen Yue came in, he saw many officials here, and also saw a familiar figure in the crowd.
"Shen Yong, are you there?"
Chen Yue's voice was filled with surprise. The red-warm turtle who blushed when he said a couplet was surprisingly here.
"Chen Yue!"
When Shen Yong heard Chen Yue's words, his face turned red first, and his eyes were full of anger. If he hadn't been in the palace, Shen Yong would have taken action immediately, but at the moment, Shen Yong could restrain his hands, but he couldn't restrain his mouth. He said with hatred: "You can't be proud for a few more days!"
Is there a situation?
Seeing this, Chen Yue simply prodded him a little more to see if he could get the other party to explain in more detail, so he said, "How will you and Tong Jinsheng's cheating be resolved in the future?"
"At that time, I was just focused on leaving and didn't pay attention to you."
This directly hit Shen Yong's most painful point. Originally, he should have achieved success in the Golden Flower Club and became a disciple of Huang Tianshun, but Chen Yue killed Shen Yong all the way to Huang Tianshun, causing them to lose all face. Afterwards, Huang Tianshun expelled Tong Jinsheng from the teacher's school, clarified the relationship, and showed that he had nothing to do with the cheating. As for Shen Yong, Huang Tianshun was completely forgotten in the corner.
"Just wait, Brother Tong has already contacted people in Fengya Club, we won't make it easy for you!"
Shen Yong said bitterly and turned around, not wanting to see Chen Yue again. Only the temperature on his body was rising.
Chen Yue knew that Fengya Society, another disciple of Huang Tianshun, Wu Yunhong, was in this organization and had invited Wu Yuqing.
Chen Yue was secretly vigilant in his heart, and at the same time he looked in the direction of the pavilion... Originally, Zhao Xiu said it was "competition for essays", and Chen Yue's enthusiasm for this palace was half gone. Now that he saw Shen Yong here, he suddenly felt that this The essay collection was conducted in a very lackluster manner.
But if you think about it carefully, the elite class of literati do not write novels, but those who can write novels to make a living are basically like this. Shen Yong can still be considered an elite among them. After all, he can go through the back door and almost become a disciple of Huang Tianshun, a bachelor.
There were many officials around, but after hearing the arrival of the author of Lian Erchun, they all stepped aside to allow Chen Yue to stand out among the crowd.
On the other side of the pavilion, a little maid came dressed in a fashion, wearing an emerald green dress and white leggings. Her hair was slightly swaying in the wind, and her hair was raised beautifully.
"Hello, gentlemen."
The little maid bowed politely and said, "I am Xiangxiang who wrote you a letter."
Chen Yue felt that it was reasonable. Zhao Xiu's sister was indeed a noble person, and it was not convenient for her to meet "down-and-out literati" like them. And after hearing Zhao Xiu refer to "them", he thought that besides Zhao Xiu's sister, there would be a few other people inside. , they worked together to figure this out.
"You are all people with great achievements in novels, and your articles can be seen in the market in Zhengyang."
Xiangxiang said above: "My princess also likes to read, and she has also dabbled in the story books of Zhengyang Mansion. When I read the story books recently, I feel that the contents are gradually converging, including talents and beauties, legends of gods and demons, investigating public cases, or It’s just intercepting and recompiling ancient legends, etc. Once a model is effective on the market, there will be countless imitators, but the contents inside have all been seen by others, and they are all quite cliché.”
"Thus, the princess would like to see some less cliché books, and is hereby soliciting them from you."
After Xiangxiang's words fell, the officials around him were whispering to each other. As the creators of novels, they know themselves best, and every author has some thoughts on writing good novels. At this time, they were whispering to each other. Besides, most of them have ideas in mind.
"For this collection, the princess will only collect one story. You don't have to write a long one. Once the content is published, no matter what, you will have twenty taels of silver as writing expenses."
Xiangxiang said: "If your content pleases our princess, then there will be pen, ink, paper, inkstone, gold and jewelry."
As for the rewards, Xiangxiang said in a cursory manner. They were all relatively expensive things on the market. At this time, the word count for writing stories was relatively concise. If you really wrote a short story, it would be up to 10,000 words, and in exchange for this, you would get twenty taels of silver. And maybe a higher reward, which is worth fighting for for all novel authors.
"I'm going to tell you the request now."
Xiangxiang said: "In novels, men can't appear dressed as women."
"There can be no private life-long decision."
"You can't have sex first and then marry!"
When Xiangxiang said this, he glanced at Chen Yue with meaning, and then all the officials also looked at Chen Yue.
"There can't be an elopement of female X!"
"There can be no unruly women!"
Everyone glanced at Chen Yue again.
"There can be no murder for money!"
"There can be no jail time!"
"There can be no frame-up and murder!"
"There can be no liaison with foreign countries!"
"There can be no sycophantic dictatorship!"
"There can be no teaching of immortal magic!"
"No ghosts or evil spirits!"
"There can be no involvement of monks and Taoists!"
"You can't show up to testify in your dreams!"
"There can be no forced marriage!"
"No theft through walls!"
Xiangxiang said all the things that the princess had listed that should not appear, almost including novels about gods and demons, novels about public cases, and many common problems of talented men and beautiful women. But the more she talked about it, the more everyone looked at Chen Yue. After all, There are many things in this that can be found in "Lian Er Chun".
This is also the reason why Lian Erchun can become a dian within a dian...
"stop looking!"
Chen Yue called out calmly and asked the officials to turn around and said, "Think carefully about how you should write a novel without conflict."
Can't write!
Conflict is king in a novel. If all clichés are discarded, then this novel will be mediocre and no different from boiled water.
The officials thought hard one by one, feeling that after such a request was made, their notebooks seemed to be gone.
"Farewell!"
Chen Yue cupped his hands towards Xiang Xiang.
