[Red Chamber] Buddhist concubine

Zhou Yao herself couldn't guarantee to keep updating every day, so naturally she didn't have much resistance to the shopkeeper's proposal.

In the early stage of the implementation of this plan, the teahouse may still only be able to profit from the traffic attracted by her story, and then benefit other authors.But in the later stage, it can also bring her more guests, expand her audience, and make her reputation even higher.

Because many people lack the courage to try novel things, not to mention that Zhou Yao is now living in a conservative ancient time, there will only be more such people.Even if many people are praising the two stories of "The Widow" and "Lu Sheng", as long as someone says "the story is completely devoid of writing, and the wording in it is even more straightforward and vulgar" Colloquial, only illiterate illiterates will like it, and online novels are just sensationalism"...

Well then, a good chunk of guests just brushed shoulders with those two stories.

However, an old-style storybook with beautiful writing, gorgeous rhetoric, and easy-to-use poetry can attract these guests to the teahouse, making them likely to fall in love with the original disdainful story.

Because the sense of substitution is not strong, it is difficult for this kind of story to attract enough guests.

But even if the traffic attracted by these stories cannot be compared with "The Widow" and "Lu Sheng", their stickiness is very high. As long as these stories continue to be produced, these guests will never give up the teahouse as a place for entertainment.

If there are more such guests, the story of "Lu Sheng" can also be fed back.

Of course, the biggest beneficiary of this plan is the teahouse itself.

In the past, the business of the teahouse was basically supported by Zhou Yao's two stories. Because he was worried that Zhou Yao would be angry, and he couldn't find good quality novels, the shopkeeper never thought of using the popularity of Menghonglou to train authors for the teahouse. .

However, if the teahouse offers a lot of rewards like other teahouses and taverns, there will always be people who want to put their works in the Lin family teahouse to tell stories——

No matter how good the work is, it is afraid that no one will see it.

As long as the works are good enough, relying on the current customer flow of the teahouse, it is enough for their stories to be known to most people who like story books.

When the story becomes famous, it will naturally attract new customers to the teahouse, and the flow of customers in the teahouse will rise again.

This is a virtuous circle.

What the restaurant plays is actually the role of a modern literature website, providing a platform and collecting benefits.

If this proposal can be implemented, it will be good for her——

The contract she signed with the teahouse is to directly participate in the teahouse's share.The more customers there are, the more Zhou Yao's dividends will be.

However, it is worth noting that the teahouses offering huge rewards must not all be stories like Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber. They must have their own innovations, so as to be different from the stories of Dream of the Red Chamber.At the same time, we can't give up the novels with the previous narrative style, because the guests like various stories, and it is impossible for all of them to favor Zhou Yao's stories.

After all, even when modern online novels are popular, many people criticize them and look down on them.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yao directly asked Qingliu to convey her opinion.

After hearing Zhou Yao's words, the shopkeeper felt a little strange.After Qingliu left, he found Mr. He in a not-so-good mood, told him Zhou Yao's words, and then said helplessly: "Mr. Meng Honglou means that teahouses can reward good stories with a lot of money, but they can only reward old stories. That kind of storybook? If you want the old storybook, why should we offer a huge reward? Don’t many people like the stories you wrote, Mr. He?”

Mr. He is also a little puzzled by this, but what he is more sober than the shopkeeper is that he has never forgotten his identity.

"Shopkeeper, no matter what purpose Mr. Meng Honglou put forward for such a suggestion, I don't think he will treat the teahouse badly." Mr. He smiled, "You forgot, the contract signed by Mr. Meng Honglou and the teahouse The part about remuneration in the book, but a large part of it is the profit sharing of the teahouse."

The shopkeeper's eyes lit up once.

"That's right. Although Mr. Meng Honglou asked us to offer rewards for stories like the old ones, he also said that we can offer a large reward for stories similar to "The Widow" and "Lu Sheng"!"

Mr. He looked at him helplessly: "Shopkeeper, when you saw me, you were so gloomy. I didn't even notice that there were such words."

The shopkeeper was a little embarrassed: "I'm too worried."

Although he thought that Menghonglou would disagree when he asked Qingliu to convey Mr. He's suggestion, but he still felt uncomfortable when such a thing was actually discovered in front of him.

After all, the teahouse relies on Mr. Menghonglou alone. If they go their own way and reward new stories with a lot of money, use the traffic attracted by Menghonglou to cultivate newcomers, and finally offend Mr. Menghonglou, causing him to vote for other teahouses. Business will definitely take a hit!

Now that Mr. Menghonglou has agreed to their proposal of rewarding new stories, the shopkeeper is naturally happy that he doesn't have to watch his guests being taken away by other rising teahouses.

"Since Mr. Menghonglou has agreed, then we can also get ready?" The shopkeeper looked at Mr. He with a wretched smile.

Mr. He was so frightened by his expression that he took a step back: "What exactly do you want to do, shopkeeper?"

"Hey..." The shopkeeper patted Mr. He on the shoulder, "I'm not thinking that you are very good at the skills and methods of writing stories in the past. In the past, most of the guests in the teahouse were also focused on your stories and ingenuity. Mr. Meng Honglou said that he should not change all the stories to be similar to hers, so..."

The shopkeeper looked directly at Mr. He, and the light of gold and silver shone inside.

Mr. He couldn't laugh or cry: "If the shopkeeper has this idea, just tell me, why scare me?"

The shopkeeper stroked his beard in satisfaction: "I'm just so happy, so happy hahaha..."

Mr. He: "... Forget it, let's go back and write the story."

Because he has stayed in the teahouse for more than ten years, he has a deep affection for the teahouse. If he can contribute to the improvement of the teahouse, he will naturally feel happy.What's more, he didn't stay in the teahouse for more than ten years for nothing. With his good ventriloquism, he had already received the dividends from the teahouse.

Not long after, a notice offering a huge reward was posted on the wall outside the teahouse door.

As Zhou Yao expected, because the teahouse itself has a large enough customer flow, and the teahouse itself has the gold-lettered signboard of Zhuang Zhoumeng's Red Chamber, many novels with real skills that are only short of famous have cast their stories to the teahouse.

Most of them are stories written in imitation of Zhou Yao's two novels. Although they have outstanding literary talents and have learned seven or eight points of Zhou Yao's online novel style of writing by virtue of their talents, the stories written by the other party are not the same as "The Survivor". They are very similar, and one or two of them even directly imitated "Lu Sheng", and wrote a story about a ventriloquist who relied on his own skills to become an official and win a lot of beauties—

Stallion novels similar to modern web novels also had a huge market in ancient times.

Although many people were obsessed with storybook novels before, they were at best a poor scholar with a wealthy family, or even a princess.The appearance of "Lu Sheng" directly opened the door to a new world for these authors who have limited the "obscenity" of the story because of their own lack of knowledge. yes.

How can a woman—even if she is both talented and beautiful, or rich and powerful—be worthy of being the male protagonist who monopolizes their "suave", "talented"... (100 million words of praise are omitted here)?There are no two, three, four, five, six or seven women, so I am ashamed to say that I am a winner in life?The beauties who are fat, swallow, and thin each have their own merits, and they must be alike!

If it's just a collection of beauties and the plot is good, it won't hurt people's eyes. After all, some guests really like this.

The shopkeeper and Mr. He are both men, so naturally they don't have much prejudice against this.

However, except for the plot of the beauty, they almost copied "Lu Sheng", without any innovation of their own.

After the shopkeeper and Mr. He had seen it, he didn't want to pay the reward at all.

After reading all the story books, the shopkeeper and Mr. He couldn't help but start to doubt life.Of course, some of these stories have their own merits, but even the best ones always seem to be missing something, which cannot make people feel the intensity of watching the two stories of "The Widow" and "Lu Sheng". mood.

The two waited for another half a month, but they did not receive a manuscript that fully met the requirements.

The shopkeeper always feels that if these stories are brought out, customers will be driven away instead.

He turned to look at Mr. He: "Why don't you put the stories you wrote during this time on stage first?"

Mr. He was a little helpless, but still nodded: "I have also written many chapters during this time, so I can deal with it temporarily. But you must know, the shopkeeper, that the stories like Mr. Meng Honglou are what our teahouse really wants. It's a reward. You can't pin all your hopes on me."

Because of the posting of a notice offering a huge reward, the restaurant has not purchased any new stories during this period.When the old stories bought before are told, there are only a few stories left by the storytellers themselves.

The key point is that other storytellers don’t get dividends from teahouses like Mr. He. They will naturally be envious when they see a huge reward. Whether the new stories they write will be used as a storytelling book or as a contribution is completely uncertain. up.

The shopkeeper naturally understood the difficulty, but had no choice but to turn his mind on Mr. Meng Honglou.

"Mr. He, you said that if I asked Miss Qingliu to bring some barely readable manuscripts to Mr. Meng Honglou to comment and point out mistakes, would he be willing?"

The shopkeeper's expression was disturbed, and he looked at Mr. He with suspicion.

Among these manuscripts, there are indeed several manuscripts whose writing style is similar to that of Menghonglou, but the stories are completely different. Although the shopkeeper and Mr. He feel that they cannot meet the reward standard, they also feel that they are only a little bit close to getting the storytelling...

Mr. He frowned, and said after a while: "You might as well ask Mr. Meng Honglou to modify it directly with money."