"Prince-in-law, an old man came here from the library. He called himself Huhai Sanren and brought many books. He said that he must meet the author of "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses", saying that he has skills comparable to "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses". Works, I am willing to discuss them together and create more masterpieces!"
"Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" is from the Qing Dynasty and is the originator of Chinese martial arts. It tells the story of the Song Dynasty.
At that time, Zhang Yifan told Zhu Jingjing these stories, and then Zhu Jingjing compiled them and printed them into books. However, the author's name is definitely not a direct name, but Fanjing, which is a character in Zhang Yifan's name and a character in Zhu Jingjing's name.
Anyone who knows, of course, knows that this Fanjing is actually Zhang Yifan. People who don't know, even if they think about it, they don't know that this Fan Jing is the current prince-in-law, and no one may believe him even if he tells him.
Of course, the library administrator must know. Therefore, he came to ask Zhang Yifan for instructions.
At this time, Zhang Yifan suddenly became interested when he heard it. He put down his quill and asked: "A work comparable to "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses"? What kind of work is it?"
"The villain read two volumes of books, one is called "Water Margin", and the other is "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms"."
Zhang Yifan was shocked when he heard this. These two books are two of the four great Chinese classics, and they were the first two books he read when he was a child. Aren't Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong people from the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty?
Idol!
He didn't know whether the person coming was Shi Naian or Luo Guanzhong, so he quickly asked: "Where is he?"
"Still waiting in the library!"
After hearing this, Zhang Yifan stood up and left. Government affairs are just signatures. It's just a matter of a county. It's not a big deal. Go and meet your idol quickly, so as not to leave without waiting.
In this era of underdeveloped communication and transportation, if you are not careful, you may not see it now, and you may not see it in the future.
But when he just walked to the door, he suddenly thought of it and immediately told the library administrator: "You go back first and serve me some tea and water. I'll be there soon!"
After saying that, he returned to the back office.
Just after passing through the back office garden, he saw Zhu Jingjing and Qiu Ju thinking about recipes in the lobby. Zhang Yifan happily shouted: "Jingjing, let's go to visit friends!"
Zhu Jingjing heard this and looked up at him in surprise.
To be honest, since she met Zhang Yifan, this was the first time she saw her husband so happy and said to her, "I'm going to visit a friend."
In my impression, there is no one whom my husband can call his friend, right?
Thinking of this, Zhu Jingjing immediately became interested, put down the recipe, and immediately came out to greet you and asked: "Brother Fan, what are you friends? Why haven't I heard of you?"
"Haha!" After hearing this, Zhang Yifan walked up to her very happily and said, "I don't know either, but we have been friends for a long time. Let's go and meet her together."
After saying that, he took Zhu Jingjing's hand and left.
Zhu Jingjing felt his excitement and became happy. As she walked away, she asked, "Brother Fan, haven't you seen him before? What does this friend do?"
The person who can make her husband say that they have been friends for a long time is definitely not an ordinary person, which makes Zhu Jingjing even more interested.
Zhang Yifan listened and said to her with a smile: "Don't you like listening to stories? This person is a very good story writer."
"Is that true?" Zhu Jingjing suddenly became happy after hearing this, "That's good. There's a new story to read, right?"
Zhu Jingjing didn't have this hobby before, but since following Zhang Yifan, she has been fascinated by his stories and likes to listen to Zhang Yifan's stories.
Zhang Yifan listened and nodded. Suddenly, something came to his mind and he secretly thought it was very dangerous!
If Zhu Jingjing is a man, no, if Zhu Di likes to listen to stories, Zhang Yifan will most likely tell him "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and then meet Luo Guanzhong himself, then he can only be dumbfounded!
At this time, Zhang Yifan was not sure whether it was Luo Guanzhong or Shi Naian, but no matter who it was, he was a celebrity whose name would go down in history.
No, he happily introduced it to Zhu Jingjing: "The works he created can be passed down through the ages.
of. I really didn’t expect to see myself again, so happy! "
Zhu Jingjing saw that Zhang Yifan was so happy, even if it was for nothing else, just to make her husband so happy, she became happy too.
My husband has been busy with things in Xiangshan County. I am so happy!
Soon, the two people, escorted by Zhu Wu and others, arrived at the library.
The administrator of the library had been waiting at the door for a long time, and immediately welcomed the consort and the princess to the backyard of the library.
Zhang Yifan turned to the backyard and saw a plainly dressed old man, probably in his fifties, with half white hair sitting under the big tree in the backyard, reading a book intently.
On the coffee table next to him, the tea was still untouched. In addition, there was a package, which looked very big. You could tell at a glance that it was full of books.
Zhang Yifan and Zhu Jingjing came over. Although they didn't speak, there was still a lot of movement, at least there were footsteps.
However, the old man didn't seem to hear it, and was still looking at the book in his hand intently.
When the library administrator saw it, he coughed quickly and said, "Old sir, the person you want to see has arrived!"
When the old man heard this, he raised his head and looked at Zhang Yifan and Zhu Jingjing. At a glance, he saw that other people were surrounding these two people. However, these two people were obviously not the people he wanted to see.
So, he stood up and did not say hello to Zhang Yifan or the others. He just said a little dissatisfied: "This little brother, I want to meet this fellow named Fan Jing!"
While talking, he turned the book in his hand to the cover and pointed to the author's name printed on it.
Zhang Yifan took a look and saw that the book in his hand was the first volume of "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness".
So, he said with a smile: "My name is Zhang Yifan, and this is my wife, Zhu Jingjing. Fanjing was made up by my wife by taking one word from our two names."
Upon hearing this, the old man was immediately dumbfounded.
When the administrator saw Zhang Yifan answering the call himself, he stepped back and went to the front to get busy.
Soon, the old man came back to his senses, with an expression of disbelief on his face.
When he thought about it, to be able to write something so wonderful and in a format similar to his own, he must be a middle-aged man with rich experience. How could such a young man write the book "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses"?
No, just listen to him ask: "May I ask this young master...Madam, this "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" is a story about the pre-Song Dynasty. There are so many characters and the descriptions are profound. Who should tell it? They told similar stories, and then the two of them compiled them?"
When Zhu Jingjing heard this, she felt a little unhappy. She could tell that she was doubting them and her husband was not capable of this.
However, she thought that this man was a long-time friend of her husband, so she suppressed her unhappiness and said calmly: "To be honest, sir, these stories were all told by my husband and compiled into a book by me."
After hearing this, the old man still had a look of disbelief on his face. He looked at Zhang Yifan, then at Zhu Jingjing, and finally at Zhang Yifan, with a look of shame on his face and said, "I'm just too old and shallow to think that the author of this book must be someone with rich experience. Ashamed, ashamed!”
Zhang Yifan laughed when he heard it.
He is indeed a fake, but people at such a young age in later generations can still write long masterpieces. For example, Thirty Years in Hedong, Thirty Years in Hexi, Three Episodes of Fighting Force, millions of words, it is a classic of online literature. His famous work was written when he was still in middle school, and he dropped out of school because of it!
So, he ignored the question and just asked with a smile: "I wonder what you call the old gentleman?"
Perhaps because of the offense just now, the old man ignored Zhang Yifan's age, solemnly clasped his fists and bowed, and then said sincerely: "The old man's surname is Luo, with a single original name and a single character, and the surname is Huhai Sanren, a Taiyuan family name. "
After introducing himself, he quickly and carefully put down the book "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses" in his hand, and then went to untie the package. At the same time, he said: "I brought with me the masterpiece "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the posthumous work of my mentor "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". "Water Margin", I originally wanted to find someone to publish it, but I didn't want anyone to...
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When he said this, he was interrupted by Zhang Yifan's surprised voice: "You mean, Shi Naian passed away?"
When Luo Guanzhong heard this, he was stunned for a moment. Then he raised his head and looked at Zhang Yifan. He didn't mind that he called him by his first name and asked in surprise: "Do you know my mentor?"
Zhang Yifan already knew that the person in front of him turned out to be classmate Luo Guanzhong, and he got to meet the real person!
He replied respectfully: "I have indeed heard about it, and I have a great talent, just like you, sir!"
Among the four great classics, if Zhang Yifan really had to say it, he felt that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was better than "Water Margin", but in front of Luo Guanzhong, he said Shi Naian, who wrote "Water Margin" It's his master, so it's hard to tell the truth.
When Luo Guanzhong heard him mention Shi Naian's story, he said a little sadly: "The master passed away in the third year of Hongwu."
When Zhang Yifan heard this, he felt a little regretful. At that time, he had not yet passed through his soul, otherwise, he would have been able to meet this famous person.
At this time, Zhang Yifan quickly changed the topic, not wanting to continue to be sad, and immediately told Zhu Wudao: "Go and get some pastries, we want to have a good chat with Mr.!"
"Yes, Prince Consort!" When Zhu Wu heard it, he immediately agreed and asked people to do it quickly.
As for Luo Guanzhong, when he heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded.
"Can I take a look?" Zhang Yifan looked at the unwrapped package and asked happily.
I guess this is the original manuscript of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or "Water Margin"!
This is a treasure!
After asking, he found that Luo Guanzhong didn't answer, so he looked up.
But Luo Guanzhong looked shocked, looked at Zhang Yifan, and stammered to confirm: "You...are you the magistrate of Xiangshan County, the current prince-in-law?"
Luo Guanzhong's family was originally engaged in business, but doing business in troubled times was basically unrealistic, and he didn't like doing business, he just liked stories.
Originally, as a scholar, he sought refuge with Zhang Shicheng, but it turned out that Zhang Shicheng was an Adou who could not be supported, refused to listen to advice, and finally left Zhang Shicheng. And because Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang were enemies, he had to give up being an official and just immersed himself in writing.
There is a saying in later generations: Writing books will starve you to death!
Luo Guanzhong had very little income from writing books and was extremely poor. It was even difficult for him to publish the books he wrote. If it is the original history, in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, he would go to Fujian, which is famous for printing books, to try his luck, but in the end he returned disappointed.
However, in this dimension, he heard about the writing style of Xiangshan County, so he came to Xiangshan County to try his luck.
After arriving in Xiangshan County, as a scholar himself, what he was most concerned about was that the Xiangshan County Library was open to ordinary people, so he went straight here.
Therefore, he did not know Zhang Yifan, and he did not expect that the man standing in front of him, the author of "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses", turned out to be the Prince Consort Captain!
He stuttered in shock, not because of the high title of Prince Consort, but because he simply couldn't relate. The person who could write "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" turned out to be an outrageously young man, especially in recent years. Come to the famous Prince Consort of Xiangshan County!
He could still understand just one of the identities, but when several identities were combined, it was beyond his understanding.
Seeing him like this, Zhang Yifan smiled slightly and said, "I am the magistrate of Xiangshan County, and my wife..."
As he spoke, he pointed at Zhu Jingjing and said, "...that's Princess Lin'an."
Speaking of this, Zhang Yifan smiled and said: "But there is no prince-in-law and princess here. It is a relationship between senior and junior. I would like to ask Mr. Luo for your advice on writing a book!"
After he finished speaking, he bowed his hands and bowed, absolutely sincerely.
When Zhu Jingjing saw that her husband was like this, she didn't care about Luo Guanzhong's previous attitude and was blessed accordingly.
In her concept, if you marry a chicken, follow the chicken, if you marry a dog, follow the dog. Anyway, whatever Zhang Yifan does, she will do it!
Seeing this, Luo Guanzhong still had an expression of disbelief on his face, but he quickly returned the courtesy and then took their seats.
Just at this time, the pastries arrived and the tea was refilled.
Zhang Yifan asked with great interest: "Mr. Luo, can I take a look?"
As he spoke, he pointed at the book inside the package.
Although Luo Guanzhong believed that he would never have anything to do with Zhu Yuanzhang in this life, he would spend the rest of his life writing books.
But at this moment, he didn't expect that he would be sitting together with Zhu Yuanzhang's daughter and son-in-law, and Zhu Yuanzhang's son-in-law still respected him.
He felt like he was in a trance and quickly responded: "Of course, of course!"
As he said that, he quickly reached out and picked up a book, but then quickly put it down, then pushed it over with the package and said, "Just take a look, Prince Consort."
After hearing this, Zhang Yifan smiled and reached out to take it, then gave Zhu Jingjing a copy, and the two of them started reading it together.
What Zhang Yifan got was a copy of "Water Margin".
It is indeed a manuscript, with some changes in certain places.
However, Zhang Yifan was a bit blind when it came to the specific content. There were many traditional Chinese characters, and some of them required guessing, which made it uncomfortable to read.
On Zhu Jingjing's side, there was no obstacle, and she began to look through it carefully.
After Zhang Yifan flipped through it a few times, he put it aside and went to get other books to confirm that they were all manuscripts. The book placed below is Luo Guanzhong's own "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
After looking at it for a while, Zhang Yifan raised his head and looked at Luo Guanzhong, and found that he had been looking at him, so he asked: "Mr. Luo, what do you mean by bringing these books here?"
When Luo Guanzhong heard this, he quickly replied: "I want to find a place to publish it, but I have no money. I don't know if I can pay for the printing with the proceeds from the sale!"
In ancient times, there was no such thing as royalties. The author wrote a book and had to spend his own money if he wanted to publish it.
That is to say, starting from the Ming Dynasty, when popular writing became popular, only well-written and popular books would be available, and booksellers would advance funds or buy them out.
In other words, with the ancient literacy rate and popularity, it was really difficult to make a living by writing books before the Ming Dynasty!
As soon as Zhang Yifan heard this, he immediately answered: "This is no problem at all. My wife and I are both people who like to read story books. I can guarantee the publication of Mr. Luo's works. In the future, you can just write books and I will How about publishing it and sharing the profits 50/50?"
He said it casually, referring to the sharing methods of later generations of the Internet. However, Zhang Yifan immediately came to his senses and felt a little sorry for Luo Guanzhong, so he immediately changed his words and said: "Or this way, you write the book, I sell the book, and we take the sales revenue." 50/50. How about it?"
The difference between these two statements is huge.
The first theory is that the profit is divided 50-50. If the book does not sell well, he may not even be able to get back the printing money. Then there will be no profit at all, and Luo Guanzhong will not have a dime.
The second theory is that it is sales share. Luo Guanzhong will definitely have income. The difference is that if the books are sold less, the income will be less. But Zhang Yifan might lose a lot of money here.
How could Luo Guanzhong not hear the difference? He quickly said: "The first kind is good, the first kind is good. As long as it can be printed, I will be grateful."
When Zhang Yifan heard this, he immediately said: "No, no, let's go with the second option! In addition, I will also provide room and board for Mr. Luo to write books with peace of mind. I hope that Mr. Luo can write more good works. My wife and I, Then it will be a blessing for your eyes!"
When Zhu Jingjing heard this, she immediately understood that her husband must be raising a writer specifically for her own sake!
Otherwise, my husband has never seen him read story books, or if he has collected story books, it must be for himself.
Thinking about this, Zhu Jingjing couldn't help but be very moved!
It's a good thing that Zhang Yifan didn't know what she was thinking, otherwise, he would definitely be shocked: raise Luo Guanzhong to write specifically for her? If it were in later generations, wouldn't it be possible to keep a top figure like Zhongyuan Wubai in the backyard and write about it, so that he could truly shut down the dark room without updating it to death?
I’m afraid this is every reader’s wish, right?
At this time, Luo Guanzhong was a little at a loss after hearing this. This kind of treatment, except that he defected to Zhang Shi at the beginning,
I encountered this when I was sincere, but later on, I encountered obstacles everywhere and was looked down upon by others.
There is no other reason than that all the scholars who had a relationship with Zhang Shicheng were disgusted by Zhu Yuanzhang!
At this time, Luo Guanzhong was moved and had to think about Zhang Yifan, and immediately reminded him: "Prince-in-law, I used to be Zhang Shicheng's staff!"
