That night, when Liu Xu's teacher returned home, he couldn't wait to find his student's Romance of the Three Kingdoms and began to read it seriously.
In fact, the teacher had read it once before, but he only devoured the first three chapters. After that, he decided that it was a rubbish novel and stopped paying attention to it.
However, after seeing the incredible development curve of this book, the teacher was filled with intense curiosity and seriously read the 45 chapters of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
After reading it for the first time, the teacher's eyes were a little hazy. He had already noticed the interesting things in this novel. It was just because there were too many incomprehensible words in the novel, which were completely created by Liu Xu, so the teacher Still can't understand something.
Fortunately, the teacher quickly found the top post in the book review area of the novel: A Comparative Dictionary of Some Unknown Vocabulary in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Third Edition).
"Three versions???" The teacher was shocked just to see that a novel came with a dictionary of unfamiliar words, but he didn't expect that the dictionary had gone through three versions. .
According to the brief introduction written by the author of the post, it can be known that this is a dictionary that he personally came up with by contacting the context and making some guesses. It is not very accurate, but it can basically help newcomers understand the words in this novel. Lots of hidden meanings.
At the same time, it also briefly introduced the development history of this comparative dictionary. In the first edition, there were only 45 noun explanations in the dictionary.
In the second edition, there were 125 explanations of terms.
By the third edition, the number of noun explanations had increased to 312.
Afterwards, the author also listed a list of thanks, which included more than 20 names, all of which were readers who helped the dictionary to be revised and supplemented. At the same time, the author also welcomed new readers to contribute to help further improve the dictionary. Complete,
Finally, a group account called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Comparative Dictionary Working Group" was left. Readers who are willing to join are welcome to join the group.
"I remember that this book currently only has more than 400 collections!" The teacher himself was completely dumbfounded when he saw this post. A working group like this formed specifically for a certain book is a treatment that can only be enjoyed by novels written by contracted authors.
Moreover, ordinary contracted authors do not have such treatment. Only those who have the power to read thousands of articles can have a chance.
And it is worth mentioning that this working group was obviously formed voluntarily by readers, rather than a group established by some authors behind the scenes.
After all, this teacher visits Liu Xu’s home once a year and knows very well about the child Liu Xu’s background. After all, if the author funded the establishment of such a working group, it would probably cost thousands of yuan every month. This is simply not what Liu Xu, an orphan, can afford.
Not to mention that Liu Xu only has 400 collections in total now, but more than 20 readers have participated in this comparison dictionary, which shows that 5% of readers actively participated in this voluntary work after reading The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. middle.
How good-looking this novel must be to make these people devote themselves to unpaid voluntary labor without hesitation!
Thinking of this, the teacher couldn't help but licked his lips, and then began to carefully read the comparative dictionary, which already had more than 300 words.
After reading it, the teacher felt that his eyes had a completely new look. When he read the novel before, he understood many of the difficult-to-understand parts with the help of this dictionary.
And once he understood the meaning of these words, the teacher was even more shocked.
Because after understanding it, the teacher understood what profound content and huge world view this book contained.
"If we can finish the book with the quality of the beginning, and at the same time keep the world view throughout, and the plot and world view settings in the middle are not broken, then this book will at least be a classic!" The teacher read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms again in one breath. Then he said to himself with a blank look.
On the second day, the teacher returned to the classroom feeling a little depressed. Then he glanced at Liu Xu who was coding seriously. After hesitating for a while, he walked up to Liu Xu and said, "Classmate Liu Xu, may I ask who the Qiang people are?" What's the meaning?"
"Robbing people?" Liu Xu was a little silly at this sudden question. The teacher smiled bitterly and quickly explained, "It was you who once wrote such a sentence when you were writing about the battle between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao at the Jieqiao. Yes, Gongsun Zan once had a war with the Qiang people, and the fight lasted for a long time without any results. So one night, he selected all the white horses and elite soldiers in the army to launch a night attack on the Qiang people together."
"Because the white horse looked like a ghost under the bonfire at night, the Qiang army was very frightened and lost its morale, so it was scattered. Gongsun Zan defeated the Qiang people. So people at that time praised Gongsun Zan. General White Horse!"
"Oh, I understand, it turns out that the teacher you are talking about is the Qiang people," Liu Xu suddenly realized.
"That's right!" The teacher nodded, and then asked impatiently, "What does this Qiang person mean?"
Because this question had tortured me for too long, the teacher still shamelessly asked, "What the teacher means is, is this Qiang a person's name or the name of a country?"
"According to the comparison dictionary, Qiang should be the name of a person who has considerable power and borders on the original territory of Gongsun Zan. But I saw that your latest chapter wrote about a person named Ma Teng. There are actually Qiang people, and his grandfather also fought Qiang people, so the teacher is a little confused. If this Qiang person is the name of a person, then this Qiang person must be eighty or ninety years old, and he is still going into battle at this age. Fight?"
"So the teacher suspected that the Qiang people should be a country. The explanation in the comparative dictionary was wrong, but the teacher was not sure, so he had to ask you, the author!" the teacher asked with a wry smile.
"I'm sorry, teacher, I didn't write it clearly in the novel!" When Liu Xu heard this, he quickly stood up and apologized, and then explained, "Qiang people are neither the name of a person nor the name of a country. In this world, they are the name of a nation. name!"
"Qiang, the name of the ancient tribe, also known as the Western Qiang, was first recorded in the Shang Dynasty..." Liu Xu went through several hundred words of Qiang-related settings in one breath. From this, we can also see why Liu Xu didn't want to Wrote notes.
Because it is really tiring to write this thing. One Qiang people have to explain so much. If we really write annotations, the amount of text would probably be five or six times as much as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms itself.
Do you really think that all authors are monsters who can write tens of thousands of words every day without getting tired?
Besides, Liu Xu is just a history student.
"Well, of course, these are the settings in the novel. It's normal that you don't understand. They are a semi-nomadic people in the north. They have widespread branches and share the same ancestors and culture!" Liu Xu tried hard explained
"Hmm... um..." The teacher said that apart from understanding the first sentence, he couldn't understand the subsequent explanations at all. Just the frequent occurrence of Qiang characters almost made the teacher's head break. exploded.
Liu Xu seemed to have noticed the teacher's confusion, so he very considerately took out a paper and pen, quickly wrote out the explanation just mentioned, and then handed it to the teacher.
After reading it, the teacher said with amazement on his face, "Classmate Liu Xu, I didn't expect that your settings are so detailed. Because of your carefulness, the future of the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms is limitless. Even if this time you have to Even if you don’t get a literary promise from God, you must keep writing and don’t give up. The literary promise must be waiting for you!”
"...Thank you, teacher!" Although Liu Xu wanted to explain that this was not his own setting, but a historical fact, there was definitely no use in saying it, so he held back.
After that, the teacher casually tutored other students on their novels. Then he couldn't wait to take out his mobile phone, entered a chat group called "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms Comparative Dictionary Working Group", and then typed in the group. "Group leader, your previous explanation about the Qiang people is wrong. Qiang people are not the name of a person, but the name of a nation..."
After saying that, the teacher entered the words Liu Xu wrote to him word for word into the group.
"This newcomer, you are so good at making up things. You are even better at making up things than our Yuanshi Tianwang!" Before the group leader could speak, a group member named Da Jiangdongqu started complaining directly.
"I'm not making it up, it's the truth!" the teacher said firmly.
"Nonsense, Qiang is definitely a name for a person. Also, in your explanation, except for the character Qiang, not a single word can be seen in other novels. You are not making it up! It's hard for you to actually make it up. Dozens of different, weird names came out!" Da Jiangdong complained.
"I really didn't make it up, these are all true!" the teacher said helplessly, and then the two people started arguing in the group.
It was not until more than ten minutes later that the group leader Lu Bu, the best in the world, finally came online and said, "Newcomer, there must be evidence for deleting the dictionary. What evidence do you have to prove that your explanation is correct?"
"The King of Yuanshi is my student, and this passage was written to me by him. Is this evidence enough?" The teacher typed this passage proudly.
He had been holding back this sentence for more than ten minutes, waiting for this opportunity to say it.
After all, when it comes to showing off, he, a street-fighting author who has been writing novels for twenty years, is so good at it that it’s all achievable!
