Xu Chengyue followed Xue Zhenrui into the house and saw her taking out a few envelopes from a thick stack and handing them to her.
She pulled out the letter and opened it to read.
The letter was written about the discussion of the heroine's report on her father in the previous volume. The letter writer wrote several pages eloquently, ranging from ethical principles to etiquette and morality, quoting classics to demonstrate the rationality of the heroine's report on her father, saying that although her move He is unfilial, but it is excusable, and he has done something loyal to the emperor, so he should not be overly condemned.
This is in response to the fact that after the book was sold, it triggered a lively debate among readers, with the left and right sides insisting on their opinions and no one willing to give in.
Unexpectedly, I wrote a special letter to submit an article and published it in the newspaper.
My mind moved very quickly, and I quickly realized that newspapers are a very large forum for public opinion.
As a visitor from later generations, Xu Chengyue has never underestimated the wisdom of the ancients. They may be trapped in a less developed and backward society, but they have left countless intangible wealth to pass on to future generations. Their wisdom is by no means limited. of the times.
But at this moment, I still feel that I have underestimated the ancients. As soon as the new thing of newspapers came out, they immediately realized its role.
However, there are those who agree and those who are against it. After all, this is an ancient society where filial piety comes first, and there are still people who are recommended as officials because of "filial piety".
She opened the next few letters and found that they were almost the same as the first one.
"Is there anyone who holds different opinions?" Xu Chengyue closed the letter and asked.
Xue Zhenrui didn't expect that she would want to see how others would criticize her, so she said blankly: "In the wastebasket."
There were scrap manuscripts in the wastebasket, and Xue Zhenrui sifted them all out.
Now I'm looking for it again, but luckily it's at the top, so I found it as soon as I flipped through it.
Opponents spoke much more fiercely than those who approved, and they did not pay much attention to word choice and sentence construction. They seemed to have no hope of being elected. They were simply venting their emotions.
Xu Chengyue looked like she was watching a good show, as if the topic of the debate had nothing to do with her.
"Which view does Mrs. Xu agree with?" Xue Zhenrui originally thought it was the former, but now it doesn't seem like it.
"What about you?" Xu Chengyue asked instead without answering.
"Of course it's the former. Lord of Heaven and Earth, my dear teacher, you are at the top of the list!" she said decisively.
Xu Chengyue smiled and nodded, but did not answer which one she agreed with. She only suggested that Xue Zhenrui publish the best two of these two opinions.
Because she doesn't agree with any of them.
The same goes for the heroine Luo Muqing. What she does is just for revenge.
In her eyes, her father was her enemy, but as for the emperor, he was the one who finally ordered her maternal family, the Luo family, who had made many contributions to the family, to be executed, even the three-year-old child was not spared.
The plot hasn't progressed there yet, but it doesn't mean that the heroine Luo Muqing has forgotten it.
Of course, Xu Chengyue couldn't write too much. After all, it was a feudal society and one couldn't blatantly slay the dragon.
Xu Chengyue became interested, curious about what kind of letters there would be, and followed Xue Zhenrui to read the readers' submissions.
She actually discovered some treasures.
For example, in the letter in my hand, the letter writer calls himself Zou. He is writing to apologize and explain the misunderstanding. He is the protagonist of the Zou family incident in the first mountain poster. The incident was made up by him after he made a drunken gaffe. It has nothing to do with brothers and sisters-in-law, and has nothing to do with family.
At the same time, it was accompanied by nearly a thousand words of self-criticism, listing his own culpability one by one, and trying his best to distance himself from the relationship with his family. Finally, he said that he had been punished and would definitely change his ways.
It can be called an ancient version of a self-examination letter.
"Hahahahaha——" Xu Chengyue couldn't help but laugh loudly.
There are so many elements to this matter that I don’t know which one to laugh at.
Xue Zhenrui was immersed in her work when she was startled by her laughter and hurriedly walked over to see, "What's wrong with Mrs. Xu?"
Xu Chengyue couldn't help laughing and was speechless. He waved his hand and handed the letter to her, gesturing for her to read it by herself.
"——Hahahahahaha" Xue Zhenrui laughed out loud after reading it.
She knew the whole story better than Xu Chengyue, because she had collected the secrets.
The nobles of these big families do not treat their slaves as human beings, and they do not avoid them when speaking or doing things. The secrets they think no one knows may have been spread to everyone in some secret corner.
However, everyone is also afraid of causing trouble and will not talk about it in a big way.
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Brother Zhou lay prone on the bed with a bruised nose and a swollen face, gnashing his teeth and wailing.
"Be gentle! Can't you see I'm in pain?" He turned and roared at the boy who was applying medicine to him.
The boy shivered with fright. He finally managed not to press it hard and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Brother Zhou finished scolding, but he frowned.
He, Aye, was so ruthless. He beat her in front of my sister-in-law's family and showed no mercy at all.
Otherwise, if the daughter-in-law cannot keep her, the relationship between the two families will be really over.
Brother Zhou was beaten willingly. If Aye didn't care, he would be kicked out of the house.
But those brother-in-laws are really beasts. They said they couldn't do it, but in fact they didn't stop him at all. They even made a fuss and told all his daily affairs, forcing him to let him do it. His Aye's strength increased several times.
He is now lying on the bed, unable to get up, and has to be fed even if he eats. He was also grounded, no one could come to see him, and he couldn't go out. He didn't know when it would end.
"Mr. Lang, the newspaper is here!" A servant quickly came in from outside the house and knelt down to hand over the newspaper.
Brother Zhou was so happy that he quickly unfolded the newspaper and read it from beginning to end.
Unexpectedly, the first post at the top was his apology letter.
This was Brother Zhou's way of clarification. He originally wanted to rely on the power of his family to pressure Shanhai Shusi into compromising and apologizing.
But Aye yelled at him, saying that his head had never grown since he was a child.
Everyone knows such a secret thing about Shanhai Bookstore, and yet they dare to publish it. There is no guarantee that there will be no backhanded tactics.
The Lu family is just an ordinary merchant family. How can they know so many secrets of the family? There must be other forces behind it, and they cannot act rashly.
Moreover, they didn't name them in their newspapers. If they came to visit them, wouldn't they be asking for it?
In order to save his own life, Brother Zhou turned his head, which rarely moved, and came up with this clarification method. He wrote a letter and submitted a manuscript to explain the cause and effect of the whole matter, and then sever the family relationship.
Now that he saw the apology letter published in the newspaper, Brother Zhou couldn't care less about being angry and was already moved to tears.
Aye, grandma, brother and sister-in-law, are you willing to forgive him now?
Wow~, it’s so uncomfortable to feel so unaccompanied even though we are at home!
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Xu Chengyue expected that after the secret was revealed, the family would put pressure on them, and she was prepared to fight a public opinion war.
As a result, the family was calm and did not take any action. They even tightened their control over their children, which exposed her vigilance to the blind man.
This is pretty good, it saves a lot of things.
She went to the bookstore with the manuscript she had written today.
Originally, the bookstore sent someone to pick it up, but now the newspaper is in the exploratory stage and is immature in many aspects, so it is inevitable that she will need some advice.
Moreover, humans are social animals and always have some social needs. In previous lives, this could be satisfied on the Internet. However, in ancient times, ordinary people's social interactions were limited to neighbors and relatives. She had no relatives and did not like to chat with her neighbors. She would not be able to socialize for a long time. People who are afraid have to suppress their illness.
So it’s not impossible to do it again in a few days.
Entering the back hall of the bookstore, I found that the room was quiet, and everyone looked bad, especially Lu Hongzhuo.
Seeing her come in, all the looks she cast were sympathetic.
"Ms. Xu, I wanted to send someone to tell you, but I didn't expect you to come." Lu Hongzhuo frowned.
"What's the matter?" Xu Chengyue asked uneasily with the corners of her raised lips slightly falling.
"A bookstore plagiarized your book and only changed the protagonist into a male. Almost all the plots are exactly the same." Lu Hongzhuo handed her a book.
No creator would be happy to hear that their work has been plagiarized. Xu Chengyue frowned and took the book.
It is really a sex-changed version of "The Miracle Doctor and the Poisonous Concubine". The name of this book is "The Miracle Doctor and the Poisonous Concubine".
The content inside is copied one to one. The heroine Chu Muqing becomes the hero Chu Muqing, the evil sister becomes the evil brother, the lustful and stupid King Li becomes Princess Li Yue, and King Jiang becomes Princess Jiangyang. The plot is also the same. Some sentences are direct. Copy it.
Seeing Xu Chengyue's pupils dilated and her lips slightly open, she was shocked.
Is there such a limitless limit? She thought she would just copy the plot idea.
Xu Chengyue had no idea how popular her novels would be. She was used to measuring things the way she did in her previous life. In fact, the popularity of Shanhai Bookshop had already made people jealous.
Although the literati are noble and disdain to follow the path of Xu Chengyue, there are always people who are not taboo about meat and vegetables and know that their talents are limited.
However, Xu Chengyue's novel was completely out of the blue, and there was no way forward. They had no way to learn from it.
The writing is either not as interesting as hers, with various plots coming at your fingertips and vivid character descriptions, or the written language habit of being wordy and wordy cannot be changed, and the writing is stiff and difficult to understand.
Copying becomes a way to learn and explore without wasting time and effort.
This book was sold very well under the name of the original book "Miracle Doctor" by Xu Chengyue. Because the two names were so similar, some admiring customers couldn't tell them apart, so they bought theirs.
"Ms. Xu, what should we do now, or should we sue the government?" Lu Hongzhuo asked anxiously.
"No, there is no law to follow, and the government can't do anything to them." Xu Chengyue thought for a moment and slowly shook his head.
As far as she knew, there was no law on copyright protection during the Tang Dynasty, and many famous figures had been infringed upon, and most of them were resolved privately.
Besides, I don’t know if the government will care about little people like them.
