[Red Chamber] Buddhist concubine
Chapter 61
In the past two years since Zhou Yao came to the World of Red Mansions, she had also heard about this Miss Ji.I have always felt that as a modern person, I am not as straightforward as this Miss Ji, nor as free and easy as this Miss Ji. I am very envious of her, and I have thought about making friends with such a person.
But after thinking about his own identity, he dispelled such thoughts.
Thinking about it in another way, if she is Miss Ji, she must be unwilling to make friends with someone who likes to take shortcuts to gain power and wealth.
Also because of these thoughts, although Zhou Yao liked this Miss Ji very much, she never deliberately inquired about her.
But what she didn't expect was that this girl Ji turned out to be her book fan.
Zhou Yao looked at the stacks of books on the carriage, and counted roughly, there must be six hundred or more——
Because there is no electric light, in order to protect the eyes, the engraved fonts of books in this era are basically very large. It is estimated that one or two hundred characters can be written on a whole page. In order to save paper, literati will write in more concise classical Chinese. .
And Zhou Yao is not good at or accustomed to writing in classical Chinese, so even if it is used for publishing books, it is also in vernacular.
Because there are too many words, five copies of the story of "The Widow" were printed, and all the contents were barely printed.
Even so, there are at least 100 sets of books on the carriage of Miss Ji.
Zhou Yao murmured in her heart that what she wrote was a novel, not a textbook.If teaching supplementary books can still be given away, but novels... I really don't know what Miss Ji is doing with buying so many books.
There are also many people downstairs who are paying attention to the situation of the book shop. Seeing Miss Ji's guards moving so many books, some people are naturally curious and want to get to the bottom of it.
Fortunately, there are one or two well-informed people who know what Miss Ji is buying so many books for——
"I heard my sister-in-law's nephew's classmate's cousin who worked in Ji's family mention that Miss Ji seems to be very obsessed with Zhuang Zhoumeng's novel written by Zhuang Zhoumeng's Red House. When she was storytelling in the Lin's teahouse in "The Widow", Miss Ji went to the teahouse by herself. Going to listen to "The Widow" doesn't count, and I planned to pull all the boudoir daughters I knew to listen to the book together, but those daughters are all self-loving, so they rejected her without hesitation, which made Miss Ji very angry. The previous paragraph Didn't the Lin family teahouse say that the bookstore under the name of Xian Wang was going to publish a book for "The Widow"? After Miss Ji heard the news, she immediately put down her words to her little sisters, saying that she wanted to buy a book for a hundred I want them to feel the charm of Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber novel."
The man laughed when he was talking, "Although I don't like Miss Ji's personality very much, but I think she is also a real boudoir daughter, not to mention that she has read the Four Books and Five Classics since she was a child, and she has read many miscellaneous notes of celebrities. I have read many books. Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber and his "The Widow" are so sought after by Miss Ji. Even if it is not a celebrity masterpiece that can be passed down through the ages, it is still a good book worth buying. Even if it cannot be used Collection, at least you can look through it in your spare time, as a pastime. Besides, the book is not expensive, don’t you think?”
"What Xiongtai said is that although I have never heard the story of "The Widow" in the Lin family teahouse, the content of the teahouse Mr. He is very attractive. Not to mention the twists and turns of the plot, it is also very novel and unique. I think, It is a pity to buy this "The Widow" just for entertainment. It is not a waste of the ingenuity of this story to read it from time to time."
The man smiled and said: "Brother, that's not bad, but everyone has their own opinions. Because you like the story of "The Widow", you naturally think that everything in this book is good, but I think this book is good no matter how well written it is." It’s just idle books, and it’s enough to buy them for entertainment. If we read them from time to time, wouldn’t it be a waste of time for us to study? For scholars, the first priority is naturally to be named on the gold list. I can buy these idle books for entertainment. Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber is a great face."
Standing in the middle of the crowd, this man talked loudly and easily caught everyone's attention.What's more, what he said is still to the point, not aimless, even if some words are not liked by people, it will not detract from his charm, so he is very popular.
Someone asked, "Are you going to buy a copy of "The Widow?"
The man smiled and said, "Of course I'm going to buy it. It's just that I didn't expect so many people to buy this book, so I came late. When I arrived, there was a long queue in front of the book store." Ordinary queue. I’m a lazy person, I really don’t want to line up to buy books under the sun, so I can only hide in the teahouse and wait, when there are fewer people queuing outside the bookstore, I will naturally go in to buy books.”
After hearing this, the others subconsciously looked out the door, and then immediately shrank back in fright from the invisible team.
"Brother Tai is wise to do this. If you go to queue in such a big sun, who knows when you will be able to buy the book? By the time you buy the book, you may have been fainted by the sun. It's still in the teahouse It's better to wait."
"That's right, this "The Widow" is just a relatively new novel. Even if there are people who want to buy it, they are only a minority. After all the people who are stupidly queuing up to buy have finished buying, we can go again. Wouldn't it be easier and more pleasant?" Cozy?"
None of the people present noticed that after this "brother"'s eloquent talk, those who had just come to watch the excitement and had no intention of buying "The Survivor" were actually persuaded to leave. Finally, I also went in and bought a copy of "The Widow".
It's a pity that these people have never discovered this at all.
Zhou Yao listened in the private room on the second floor, but she felt that the person who spoke was not like speaking independently, but more like a babysitter invited by the bookstore.
If it is as she guessed, then this nurse is too powerful——
Compared with the caretaker hired by other business people who just praised blindly, or several people played with each other, belittling and praising at the same time, what this caretaker said was good or bad, and there was even some derogatory words for "The Widow" in his words. His language, even his own attitude, is not very favorable to Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber and his "The Widow".
And in his words, Zhuang Zhou's dream of the Red Chamber wrote novels one by one, which is not as serious as a serious scholar, and he can easily win the favor of the guests present.So what he said makes people feel rational and neutral, and makes people subconsciously want to believe it.
Such words are actually the easiest to incite people's hearts.
It's a pity that she was not sure whether her guess was correct, so she could only smile secretly in her heart.
A group of people sat in the teahouse sipping tea, eating melon and fruit snacks, talking endless gossip, and their posture was very leisurely.
And Mr. He standing on the high platform of the teahouse was secretly delighted while talking about "The Survivor".
Because of his interests, his ideas are naturally different from others, but the current scene is indeed what he likes to see, so his storytelling on the high platform is becoming more and more attractive, and it is also more attractive.
It's a pity that his winking eyes are destined to be thrown to the blind... No, the cripple saw it.
Blind people can't see winking, but lame people can see it, but they are powerless——
Just when the group of people in the teahouse were chatting and laughing, and looked at the jokes of those queuing up, the steward of the book shop suddenly came out, put his hands in front of his mouth and made a trumpet shape, and shouted: "" "The Widow" has been sold out, and those who have not yet purchased the books, please come forward and register their names and addresses one by one. You only need to pay a normal deposit. When "The Widow" is published again, the book store will send people to deliver the books one by one. There is no need for everyone to wait in line.”
"If you don't want to pay the deposit, please also leave your name and address. The first edition of "The Widow" will be printed according to the number of registered guests. After only half a month, everyone can go to the bookstore to buy "The Widow" in person. "
As soon as the words fell, the guests queuing up in front of the bookstore exploded like cold water rolling into hot oil.
In stark contrast to the outside, the inside of the teahouse was silent.
Especially the one who said to stay in the teahouse and wait in line to buy all the people in line before going, the word ugly can't describe the expression on his face at all.
Zhou Yao: "...Pfft."
"The Widow" is a novel, but it sold many lively scenes that cannot be sold in celebrity poetry anthologies, and even when everyone was not optimistic, it was sold out directly, causing many people to want to buy this book to see what happened of people did not buy the book...
This situation has aroused the curiosity of many people.
Because of such curiosity, many people who didn't plan to buy the book "The Widow" wanted to buy a book with a lot of money to see what happened.
Many people even took a lot of money to the book store to leave a deposit without even knowing what the story "The Widow" was telling, and they had to buy the book half a month later.
After half a month, the book shop put out the book "The Widow" again and started selling it...
Not to mention that there was a long queue at the entrance of the book shop, even the street where the book shop was located was full of customers who wanted to buy "The Widow".
Among them, there are even many guests who didn't look down on novels and never read such nonsense books.
In Zhou Yao's previous life's words, the book "The Widow" is no longer just famous among the audience of the novel, but a real...
Out of circle.
The whole capital knows about Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Mansion, and also about "The Widow".
In such a situation, it is uncertain whether the Xian Wang Mansion did it intentionally or unintentionally caused such a result, but it is true that everyone related to "The Widow" benefited from it.
Zhuang Zhou's reputation in the Dream of the Red Chamber has risen to a higher level, and he has earned more money. The unfinished novel "Lu Sheng" has also received more popularity; the passenger flow of Lin's teahouse has reached its peak again, and the omission lobby that has been expanded has once again become popular. There was a situation of overcrowding and no seats available; the shopkeeper got a large bonus as a result, and the Lin family gained more money; Several authors who have been praised have also received more attention——
Even if there is no way to get more gold and silver because of this for the time being (the contract signed by the teahouse is a buyout), but relying on the reputation that has been established now, even if you don't contribute articles to the Lin's teahouse in the future, you can still get along well.
The shopkeeper was well-informed, and couldn't help telling Qingliu that those authors had been contacted by several teahouses and taverns, and the other party took the price difference ten times higher than the Lin's teahouse, and wanted to poach people into their own territory.Two of the four authors have already been moved, and have even secretly started writing new stories, and they will switch jobs to other places when the story in hand is over.
Zhou Yao was a little curious after hearing the news. Unlike her, these four authors were almost all held by the teahouse. Now that they want to change jobs, doesn't the shopkeeper mind?No revenge?
Qingliu quickly relayed the shopkeeper's words to her——
"What is there to care about? As long as the teahouse has the golden signboard of Mr., there is no fear that there will be no new stories and new authors coming. As long as Mr. is willing to pick out a few spiritual pointers from it, these authors are now Isn’t the grades coming at your fingertips? If you want to leave, I don’t believe that these people can still have the fame and attention they have today after leaving the Lin’s teahouse.”
The shopkeeper dared to say such a thing, relying on the signboard of Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber.As long as Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber does not leave, the customers of the teahouse will not be lost. As long as the customers do not lose, it is just a few authors, and they will be picked up soon after a little training.
Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber is the confidence of the Lin Family Tea House.
Zhou Yao didn't know that the shopkeeper valued her so much, but after hearing this statement, she couldn't hide the smile on her face——
Ever since she traveled to the world of Red Mansions, even when she was in the best mood, she felt like a big rock was pressing on her heart. Now, from the mouth of the shopkeeper, she has confirmed from the side that she has the foundation to gain a foothold in this world, and she no longer seems to have no roots. Like duckweed swaying from side to side, panicked, Zhou Yao's mood finally cleared the clouds.
The whole capital knew about the book "The Widow" and the name of Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber.Many of them wanted to find out the identity of Menghonglou out of curiosity, but Zhou Yao, who had the triple protection of the shopkeeper, the Lin family, and the Xianwang Mansion, had her identity well protected.
So when the popularity of "The Widow" passes, Zhou Yao can still continue to live her own life without any interruption.
On this day, Zhou Yao finally persuaded Zhou's mother to agree to her idea of moving out of Zhou's house.
Although she agreed, the expression on Zhou's mother's face was not very happy.
After Zhou Yao's brothers moved her luggage into the small courtyard they had chosen before, Zhou's mother called Zhou Yao to her face and said with a serious face: "Although you have moved out of the house, you must remember that you are still a Members of the Zhou family. When you encounter problems in the future, don’t feel troublesome to your brothers, just go to the house and tell them that your brothers are at your disposal.”
Zhou Yao smiled calmly: "Daughter knows. I'm not stupid. How could I resist myself when I really encountered something? Those brothers of mine are not just for display? If someone doesn't have eyes, just let a few brothers go to him Stand in front of me, hey, good guy, a row of strong men, see if anyone dares to bully me!"
What Zhou Yao said was very graphic, which caused Zhou's mother to laugh out loud without controlling her expression.
If you want to keep a straight face after breaking the skills, it will not be so convincing.
Mother Zhou sighed, but didn't say anything more.
Not only this small courtyard, she also bought the big house that Zhou Yao was looking at before. Now that Zhou Yao's house has been moved, the whole family of the Zhou family has to move into the big house as soon as possible. There is really no time. Talk to her more.
Anyway, if she said it, she might not listen.
After all the dust has settled, Zhou Yao is also ready to start writing the finale of "Lu Sheng".
Taking time out before, Zhou Yao has already written a part of the manuscript, and now there is only a complete finale, so she can put down the book and start thinking about the next story.
Zhou Yao already has the prototype of the next story in her heart, and now she just waits for "Lu Sheng" to end.
……
After more than ten years of hard work, Lu Sheng has now sat on a high position, and has become the fastest in history to climb to the top position, and also the most trusted official of the emperor.
With a beautiful wife and concubine in his arms, fame and fortune accompanied by him, it stands to reason that Lu Sheng has reached the pinnacle of his life, so he should have nothing else to ask for.
However, for some reason, Lu Sheng felt as if a big hole was missing in his heart. He always felt that the wind was leaking, and the cold was so cold that his whole body was icy cold, and he couldn't even sleep soundly at night.
Lu Sheng felt that he might have run into something evil, so he handed over a letter of invitation to the emperor overnight and told him to return home.
There is a Huangliang Temple in his hometown, and there is an eminent monk in the temple, who is the most effective.
Lu Sheng took his family to visit the eminent monk.
However, the eminent monk raised his hand and scattered all the beautiful wives and concubines, gold, silver and jewelry he brought, and turned into powder before Lu Sheng's eyes, annihilated in the world.
The strange thing is that Lu Sheng didn't feel sad about it.
He looked at the eminent monk, seemed to think of something, but didn't seem to think of anything, his eyes were empty and confused, and he was muttering words.
Seeing this, the eminent monk put his index finger and middle finger together, and touched directly between Lu Sheng's eyebrows: "Idiot, it's time to wake up!"
Lu Sheng was shocked and sat up from the bed in an instant, only then did he realize that everything before was just a dream.
A sweet dream?
Lu Sheng burst into tears immediately, and the tears flowed out for nothing: "Yun Wan, my Yun Wan...it turned out to be just a dream..."
He seemed to remember something, turned over and got up from the bed, stumbled and rushed out.
He met many pedestrians on the road, speaking words that he could not understand.
Someone tried to grab Lu Sheng, but he threw him away violently, and Lu Sheng himself fell a piece of shit because of the reaction force.
However, he didn't care about these.
Lu Sheng continued to run forward...
He ran out of the street where his home was located, ran out of the West Market, and ran out of the city...
It wasn't until he came to the mass grave in the suburbs that he finally stopped.
He looked at the large and small graves in a daze, at the corpses wrapped in straw mats and thrown everywhere, and the scattered bones that couldn't make up a human being. He smiled miserably and fell to the ground in an instant.
"Yun Wan..." He called out in a low voice.
The name slipped around his lips, with a refreshing and rich aroma, which fascinated Lu Sheng.
He lay down on the ground and just fell asleep.
It was not until the next day that Lu Sheng's neighbors found him at the mass grave.
Neighbors cursed and carried him back home.On the way home, the neighbor scolded in disgust: "Isn't it just a woman? It's worth your life and death for her, and you don't even have a human face? Tell me about you, even if you rely on an amazing ventriloquist Can you live a good life, and when you have saved enough money, you can choose as many young wives as you want?"
"A Zhao Yunwan, no matter how good-looking she is..." He paused for a moment, then sneered, "Everyone is dead, so how come they can live to marry you?"
"Don't think my words are ugly. This is the way things are in this world. Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat dried shrimps, but those dried shrimps deserve to die? If Zhao Yunwan is still alive, she will see you now. This trash looks like I should scold you too!"
The neighbor babbled a lot, but unfortunately, Lu Sheng didn't listen to a single word.
When the neighbor finally delivered him to the house, before he could put him on the bed, Lu Sheng suddenly got up, picked up a kitchen knife, and rushed out the door again. The neighbor was startled, and quickly chased him out.
Looking at the scenery along the way, the panic on the neighbor's face became more and more intense——
This road is the one leading to Zhao Yunwan's former home.
But Zhao Yunwan's parents were long gone, and Zhao Yunwan herself was sold into a brothel, and was later redeemed by a nobleman and given to an even bigger nobleman...
After being sent to the home of a great man, even if it is just a concubine of an Israeli servant, she should be well-clothed and well-fed, and she should eat delicious food and spicy food.It's a pity that Zhao Yunwan was not the one to enjoy the blessings, so she hanged herself within a day after being sent to the big man's house, and she just disappeared.
How many people sighed at this.
However, no matter what happened to Zhao Yunwan before, it is a fact that she died.Zhao Yunwan's home has already been taken over by her relatives——
That nest relative was the one who sold Zhao Yunwan into the brothel.
Even if others look down on this family, they got the Zhao family's house and the money from Zhao Yunwan's prostitution. They lived a happy life and didn't care about other people's gossip at all.
But Zhao Yunwan is Lu Sheng's sweetheart, and that family is Zhao Yunwan's enemies, and Lu Sheng is still carrying a kitchen knife...
The neighbor didn't pay attention to the road and tripped over a stone in the middle of the road and fell to the ground. He could only watch Lu Sheng disappear before his eyes.
"Life--" the neighbor yelled in horror, "Lu Sheng is going to kill someone!"
The neighbors around heard this and went out one after another, and the neighbor quickly told about Lu Sheng running to Zhao Yunwan's house with a knife.Now, everyone understood what Lu Sheng wanted to do.
Everyone present watched Lu Sheng and Zhao Yunwan grow up. Zhao Yunwan was gone, so how could they want to see Lu Sheng lose his life because of avenging her?
Each of them didn't even have time to say a word, so they quickly ran towards Zhao's house with their heads buried.
It's a pity it's still too late...
When everyone heard a howl and ran to the gate of Zhao's house, all relatives of Zhao Yunwan's family, no matter how old or young, were hacked to death by Lu Sheng.
As for Lu Sheng, standing in the middle of the courtyard covered in blood, his eyes were empty, as if he had lost his soul long ago.
"what--"
There were those who were timid and screamed in fright at the scene, and many people were so stimulated by the red, white and white pictures that they vomited out...
The neighbor who had carried Lu Sheng back from the mass grave before boldly stepped forward and called "Lu Sheng", but got no response.
He swallowed, tiptoed and tried to get closer to Lu Sheng.Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, Lu Sheng caught Lu Sheng's sideways gaze.
Stared at by his empty eyes, the neighbor was too scared to walk no matter how courageous he was.
His legs went limp, and he collapsed directly to the ground.
"Lu Sheng..." The neighbor felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he didn't know how to persuade him.
There is no way to persuade him, he has killed people all over the place, and he has killed a lot of people, even if he is extraneous, it is absolutely impossible to spare his life.
We all grew up together...
The policemen who heard the news were also taken aback by the scene before them, but after all, they had seen a lot of murder scenes, so they were much calmer than others.
And the scene in front of me is very obvious, the killed, murdered, and witnesses are all complete, they just need to arrest people...
The leading catcher came forward with a few small catchers, trying to snatch the kitchen knife from Lu Sheng's hand.
bang——
Lu Sheng let go, and the kitchen knife fell directly on the grass, making a slight noise.
The head catcher took a step back in fright.
When he realized that his actions were too timid, he looked at the others in embarrassment.
However, the others didn't notice his small movement at all.
The head catcher heaved a sigh of relief, and was about to shout loudly, so that the murderer would realize his mistake...
bang——
This time, it was Lu Sheng who fell to the ground.
The head catcher didn't care about anything else, so he hurried forward to call for someone, but he didn't get any response at all.He swallowed, stretched out his index finger to check Lu Sheng's breath...
"Dead." The head catcher turned around in surprise.
……
Afterwards, the county magistrate tried the case, and only then did he piece together the whole story from the mouths of many of Lu Sheng's neighbors.
It turned out that Lu Sheng and Zhao Yunwan were childhood sweethearts, and they had promised each other for life.
Lu Sheng was an orphan, so he had the final say on the marriage, and Zhao Yunwan's parents didn't think highly of Lu Sheng, but Lu Sheng worked hard, and gradually won the favor of Zhao's parents.
Seeing that everything is going well, who knows that something unexpected happened, the Zhao family's parents encountered an accident when they went out to do business, and both husband and wife lost their lives.
The family hacked to death by Lu Sheng were relatives of the Zhao family. They rushed over after getting the news, and they didn't plan to hold a funeral for the Zhao family's parents, so they directly occupied the Zhao family's real estate. They even thought that Zhao Yunwan was beautiful. He came up with the idea of selling her into a brothel to make a fortune.
It's a pity that Zhao Yunwan was smart enough to see through the family's thoughts, so in the middle of the night, she dragged her parents' corpses to the street with a cart, intending to sell herself to bury her father.
Before that, Zhao Yunwan wanted to go to find Lu Sheng.
However, when Lu Sheng went out to set up a stall to perform ventriloquist for people the day before, he was picked on by a bully, and then he was beaten unconscious, and now he is recuperating at home——
The money that Lu Sheng originally saved for marrying Zhao Yunwan was also wasted because of this accident.
Zhao Yunwan had no choice but to take the road of prostitution.
However, before she was spotted, her jackal-like relative found her, dragged her to the brothel, and sold her on the spot.
The corpses of the poor Zhao family's parents were directly dragged to the mass grave by his relatives and thrown away without even digging a hole for burial.
Later, I heard that Zhao Yunwan tried to escape from the brothel once, and successfully connected with Lu Sheng, and the two planned to elope.
Unexpectedly, the thugs in the brothel arrived soon, and then arrested Lu Sheng and threatened Zhao Yunwan.
Zhao Yunwan had to follow the thugs back.
Later, Zhao Yunwan became a famous oiran in the brothel because of her beauty. In order to get close to Zhao Yunwan, Lu Sheng ruined his face, changed his accent and entered the brothel to perform for others.
However, God might want to fight against this lover. Not long after, someone wanted to redeem Zhao Yunwan's body, and the old bustard agreed.
If Lu Sheng wanted to see Zhao Yunwan again, he would lose his chance.
There was no news from Zhao Yunwan either.
A few months later, Zhao Yunwan died in the home of another powerful man.
……
In order to write this turning point well, Zhou Yao wrote and changed the ending, changed and wrote again, wasted countless papers and pens and discarded more than a dozen versions, and finally got a satisfactory ending.
Zhou Yao sorted out all the manuscripts of "Lu Sheng", and handed them all over to Qingliu, asking her to pass them on to the shopkeeper.
Then, this ending caused a lot of scolding...
Because most of the stories written by authors in this era are very short, when Zhou Yao handed over the finale of "Lu Sheng" to the shopkeeper, two of the four novels that were previously promoted had already been completed.
"Lu Sheng" was given to the shopkeeper with the finale, so the shopkeeper simply used the time vacated after the completion of the previous two books to tell the story of "Lu Sheng".
The shopkeeper has read the ending in advance, so he knows that there are many foreshadowings buried in the previous plot.
Because he was worried that the customer had forgotten the previous plot, the shopkeeper specially asked Mr. He to re-tell the previous content, and then continued with the content that Zhou Yao gave him.
And before telling the ending, the shopkeeper seemed to have expected that the guests would riot because of this, so he took countless protective measures, especially around Mr. He, and even found more than a dozen skilled thugs to protect him closely, just because he was worried After Mr. tells this ending, it will lead to the tragic scene in the ending of "The Widow", where Mr. He is almost beaten by a furious guest.
However, even if the shopkeeper thinks that he has made enough preparations, when the ending of the story is really told from Mr. He's mouth, the violent reaction of the guests still catches the shopkeeper by surprise——
When the ending of "The Widow" came out, even if the guests rioted, but because it can be justified, there are only a few people who are really excited enough to want to hit someone.However, as soon as the ending of "Lu Sheng" came out, the heroine died early, and the male protagonist died, not to mention everyone.The story between the key male and female protagonists has nothing to do with the previous ones (in their opinion), it's like Meng Honglou couldn't think of a better ending, so they just wrote a magical twist to fool the audience.
The guests in the tea house wanted to kill people!
Fortunately, the shopkeeper's preparations were not useless. Although he did not expect the reaction of the guests to be so intense, those preparations stopped all those who wanted to hurt Mr. He.
The only accident was that the guests accidentally hit someone when they threatened Mr. He because they were too excited, and a group fight broke out.
Shopkeeper: "..." Woohoo, madam will kill me!
However, after all the emotional guests were taken away because of their injuries, the remaining rational guests began to analyze the foreshadowing of the story of "Lu Sheng"——
For example, every beauty that the protagonist Lu Sheng meets, no matter how fat she is, how thin she is, or what kind of style she is, but the mole at the corner of her eye and the scar on her arm never change; It can be consistent with Zhao Yunwan's experience that the neighbors talked about after Lu Sheng woke up from the dream; for example, every time Lu Sheng met a beauty, he fell in love with each other at an astonishing speed, and after having a new beauty, before It seems that the beauties who have been taken into the back house by Lu Sheng have never appeared again; for example...
After analyzing the clues one by one by the boss, the guests of the teahouse suddenly discovered that Mr. Meng Honglou had laid so many foreshadowings in the plot before "Lu Sheng".
The boss who analyzed the plot of the clues directly used the grass snake gray line to describe this writing method, and gave an example that Mr. Meng Honglou did not use this writing method to the extreme, but only the current ones are enough to describe the "Lu Sheng" The story pushes to a peak that others cannot reach.
And "Lu Sheng" is just a love story after all, the main line of the novel seems to be only love besides Lu Sheng's road to promotion and fortune.
However, the audience of "Lu Sheng" knows in their hearts that the line of Lu Sheng's promotion and fortune is written vividly and clearly, without any hidden foreshadowing at all.
Mr. Meng Honglou's ability to use the grass snake gray line to this extent in a love story has already paid attention to explaining its excellence.
But for many people, what this ending brings them is not only a finished story, but also a rebuttal about the fact that "Lu Sheng" is not as good as "The Widow", so Mr. Meng Honglou has exhausted his talents.
It was almost like a loud slap, directly slapped on the faces of those who spoke out loud.
But before these guests could analyze more, a shocking cry broke out in the private room on the second floor of the teahouse——
"Woooooh, Lu Sheng is so infatuated, Zhao Yunwan is so happy..."
???
The guests downstairs stared wide-eyed, and wanted to go upstairs and ask the person who said this if there was something wrong with his mind: Lu Sheng is infatuated, but why is Zhao Yunwan so happy?She died in love with her father and mother, was sold into a brothel by her relatives, and suffered countless sufferings that ordinary people could hardly imagine. No matter what, it has nothing to do with happiness, right?
"Lu Sheng is so miserable, those villains are too hateful, how can we break up lovers..."
???
Do wicked people need a reason for doing bad things?And it's not a big mistake to break up a lover, right?Shouldn't you condemn them for buying and selling people, for collusion between officials and businessmen, and for officials and officials to protect each other?
"Wow, if I could get Lu Sheng's attention, I would be willing to die immediately..."
Everyone: "..."
Just as everyone was waiting for some shocking words to be uttered in the private room, the door of the private room opened with a "squeak", and two young girls walked out of it hand in hand.
One of them was Miss Ji who had a notorious reputation in the capital.
However, the two girls were crying with tears in their eyes, and no one could tell which one was speaking just now.
Xu Shi noticed the gaze on the first floor, and Miss Ji directly looked down at the first floor. After meeting the eyes of the guests on the first floor, Miss Ji immediately wiped away her tears and gave everyone downstairs a fierce look: "What are you looking at? Didn't you see?" Women cry!"
Miss Ji's reputation... ahem...
Forget it, Miss Ji doesn't care about her reputation at all anyway.
On the contrary, it was the girl who was protected by Miss Ji, which aroused the curiosity of many people.But even if these people are thinking about it, they will never guess that this girl who is protected by Miss Ji is the most favored by the emperor, and her reputation has always been corresponding to gentleness, virtuousness, generosity and decency...His Royal Highness Sixth Princess .
And what these people never imagined was that the various remarks that surprised them before were not said by Miss Ji, but by the sixth princess who couldn't help shouting out of her emotions...
Heartfelt words.
Otherwise, why can Miss Ji and Princess Six be best friends?They are essentially the same kind of people.
It's a pity that the sixth princess, as a royal princess, is watched by many people every word and deed, and she can't and dare not do things according to her will.
But after these words of the sixth princess were pinned to Miss Ji, they spread throughout the capital as she wept loudly.
No matter when, the effects of celebrity effects are amazing.
There was an "advertisement" in which Miss Ji was moved to tears by the story of "Lu Sheng", and then the teahouse once again brought out "Lu Sheng" as a story, and the seats were also full.
And because of the unique writing style of "Lu Sheng", many customers with poor memory went directly to the shopkeeper of the teahouse, trying to persuade him to publish the story of "Lu Sheng" in a book, so they could buy a book and go back to find Dream Red Mansion by themselves. The foreshadowing left by Mr. in the previous chapters will not cause people to be confused when they hear the previous clues.
The shopkeeper smiled wryly, he was just a shopkeeper of a tea house, not a shopkeeper of a book shop, how could he publish books as soon as he said he would?
But the prospect of "Lu Sheng" is good, and "The Widow" was a big hit before, presumably soon there will be booksellers who want to make money to come to publish books for "Lu Sheng".
Thinking of this, the shopkeeper's face was full of smiles: "Don't worry, everyone, "Lu Sheng" is very popular, and it will be published sooner or later. When the news of "Lu Sheng" comes out, the old man will definitely be in the teahouse It will be widely publicized, and you will never miss the first-hand news."
The guests who came to block people left satisfied.
However, the hustle and bustle of the capital has nothing to do with Tu Min——
Tu Min listened to the emperor
But after thinking about his own identity, he dispelled such thoughts.
Thinking about it in another way, if she is Miss Ji, she must be unwilling to make friends with someone who likes to take shortcuts to gain power and wealth.
Also because of these thoughts, although Zhou Yao liked this Miss Ji very much, she never deliberately inquired about her.
But what she didn't expect was that this girl Ji turned out to be her book fan.
Zhou Yao looked at the stacks of books on the carriage, and counted roughly, there must be six hundred or more——
Because there is no electric light, in order to protect the eyes, the engraved fonts of books in this era are basically very large. It is estimated that one or two hundred characters can be written on a whole page. In order to save paper, literati will write in more concise classical Chinese. .
And Zhou Yao is not good at or accustomed to writing in classical Chinese, so even if it is used for publishing books, it is also in vernacular.
Because there are too many words, five copies of the story of "The Widow" were printed, and all the contents were barely printed.
Even so, there are at least 100 sets of books on the carriage of Miss Ji.
Zhou Yao murmured in her heart that what she wrote was a novel, not a textbook.If teaching supplementary books can still be given away, but novels... I really don't know what Miss Ji is doing with buying so many books.
There are also many people downstairs who are paying attention to the situation of the book shop. Seeing Miss Ji's guards moving so many books, some people are naturally curious and want to get to the bottom of it.
Fortunately, there are one or two well-informed people who know what Miss Ji is buying so many books for——
"I heard my sister-in-law's nephew's classmate's cousin who worked in Ji's family mention that Miss Ji seems to be very obsessed with Zhuang Zhoumeng's novel written by Zhuang Zhoumeng's Red House. When she was storytelling in the Lin's teahouse in "The Widow", Miss Ji went to the teahouse by herself. Going to listen to "The Widow" doesn't count, and I planned to pull all the boudoir daughters I knew to listen to the book together, but those daughters are all self-loving, so they rejected her without hesitation, which made Miss Ji very angry. The previous paragraph Didn't the Lin family teahouse say that the bookstore under the name of Xian Wang was going to publish a book for "The Widow"? After Miss Ji heard the news, she immediately put down her words to her little sisters, saying that she wanted to buy a book for a hundred I want them to feel the charm of Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber novel."
The man laughed when he was talking, "Although I don't like Miss Ji's personality very much, but I think she is also a real boudoir daughter, not to mention that she has read the Four Books and Five Classics since she was a child, and she has read many miscellaneous notes of celebrities. I have read many books. Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber and his "The Widow" are so sought after by Miss Ji. Even if it is not a celebrity masterpiece that can be passed down through the ages, it is still a good book worth buying. Even if it cannot be used Collection, at least you can look through it in your spare time, as a pastime. Besides, the book is not expensive, don’t you think?”
"What Xiongtai said is that although I have never heard the story of "The Widow" in the Lin family teahouse, the content of the teahouse Mr. He is very attractive. Not to mention the twists and turns of the plot, it is also very novel and unique. I think, It is a pity to buy this "The Widow" just for entertainment. It is not a waste of the ingenuity of this story to read it from time to time."
The man smiled and said: "Brother, that's not bad, but everyone has their own opinions. Because you like the story of "The Widow", you naturally think that everything in this book is good, but I think this book is good no matter how well written it is." It’s just idle books, and it’s enough to buy them for entertainment. If we read them from time to time, wouldn’t it be a waste of time for us to study? For scholars, the first priority is naturally to be named on the gold list. I can buy these idle books for entertainment. Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber is a great face."
Standing in the middle of the crowd, this man talked loudly and easily caught everyone's attention.What's more, what he said is still to the point, not aimless, even if some words are not liked by people, it will not detract from his charm, so he is very popular.
Someone asked, "Are you going to buy a copy of "The Widow?"
The man smiled and said, "Of course I'm going to buy it. It's just that I didn't expect so many people to buy this book, so I came late. When I arrived, there was a long queue in front of the book store." Ordinary queue. I’m a lazy person, I really don’t want to line up to buy books under the sun, so I can only hide in the teahouse and wait, when there are fewer people queuing outside the bookstore, I will naturally go in to buy books.”
After hearing this, the others subconsciously looked out the door, and then immediately shrank back in fright from the invisible team.
"Brother Tai is wise to do this. If you go to queue in such a big sun, who knows when you will be able to buy the book? By the time you buy the book, you may have been fainted by the sun. It's still in the teahouse It's better to wait."
"That's right, this "The Widow" is just a relatively new novel. Even if there are people who want to buy it, they are only a minority. After all the people who are stupidly queuing up to buy have finished buying, we can go again. Wouldn't it be easier and more pleasant?" Cozy?"
None of the people present noticed that after this "brother"'s eloquent talk, those who had just come to watch the excitement and had no intention of buying "The Survivor" were actually persuaded to leave. Finally, I also went in and bought a copy of "The Widow".
It's a pity that these people have never discovered this at all.
Zhou Yao listened in the private room on the second floor, but she felt that the person who spoke was not like speaking independently, but more like a babysitter invited by the bookstore.
If it is as she guessed, then this nurse is too powerful——
Compared with the caretaker hired by other business people who just praised blindly, or several people played with each other, belittling and praising at the same time, what this caretaker said was good or bad, and there was even some derogatory words for "The Widow" in his words. His language, even his own attitude, is not very favorable to Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber and his "The Widow".
And in his words, Zhuang Zhou's dream of the Red Chamber wrote novels one by one, which is not as serious as a serious scholar, and he can easily win the favor of the guests present.So what he said makes people feel rational and neutral, and makes people subconsciously want to believe it.
Such words are actually the easiest to incite people's hearts.
It's a pity that she was not sure whether her guess was correct, so she could only smile secretly in her heart.
A group of people sat in the teahouse sipping tea, eating melon and fruit snacks, talking endless gossip, and their posture was very leisurely.
And Mr. He standing on the high platform of the teahouse was secretly delighted while talking about "The Survivor".
Because of his interests, his ideas are naturally different from others, but the current scene is indeed what he likes to see, so his storytelling on the high platform is becoming more and more attractive, and it is also more attractive.
It's a pity that his winking eyes are destined to be thrown to the blind... No, the cripple saw it.
Blind people can't see winking, but lame people can see it, but they are powerless——
Just when the group of people in the teahouse were chatting and laughing, and looked at the jokes of those queuing up, the steward of the book shop suddenly came out, put his hands in front of his mouth and made a trumpet shape, and shouted: "" "The Widow" has been sold out, and those who have not yet purchased the books, please come forward and register their names and addresses one by one. You only need to pay a normal deposit. When "The Widow" is published again, the book store will send people to deliver the books one by one. There is no need for everyone to wait in line.”
"If you don't want to pay the deposit, please also leave your name and address. The first edition of "The Widow" will be printed according to the number of registered guests. After only half a month, everyone can go to the bookstore to buy "The Widow" in person. "
As soon as the words fell, the guests queuing up in front of the bookstore exploded like cold water rolling into hot oil.
In stark contrast to the outside, the inside of the teahouse was silent.
Especially the one who said to stay in the teahouse and wait in line to buy all the people in line before going, the word ugly can't describe the expression on his face at all.
Zhou Yao: "...Pfft."
"The Widow" is a novel, but it sold many lively scenes that cannot be sold in celebrity poetry anthologies, and even when everyone was not optimistic, it was sold out directly, causing many people to want to buy this book to see what happened of people did not buy the book...
This situation has aroused the curiosity of many people.
Because of such curiosity, many people who didn't plan to buy the book "The Widow" wanted to buy a book with a lot of money to see what happened.
Many people even took a lot of money to the book store to leave a deposit without even knowing what the story "The Widow" was telling, and they had to buy the book half a month later.
After half a month, the book shop put out the book "The Widow" again and started selling it...
Not to mention that there was a long queue at the entrance of the book shop, even the street where the book shop was located was full of customers who wanted to buy "The Widow".
Among them, there are even many guests who didn't look down on novels and never read such nonsense books.
In Zhou Yao's previous life's words, the book "The Widow" is no longer just famous among the audience of the novel, but a real...
Out of circle.
The whole capital knows about Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Mansion, and also about "The Widow".
In such a situation, it is uncertain whether the Xian Wang Mansion did it intentionally or unintentionally caused such a result, but it is true that everyone related to "The Widow" benefited from it.
Zhuang Zhou's reputation in the Dream of the Red Chamber has risen to a higher level, and he has earned more money. The unfinished novel "Lu Sheng" has also received more popularity; the passenger flow of Lin's teahouse has reached its peak again, and the omission lobby that has been expanded has once again become popular. There was a situation of overcrowding and no seats available; the shopkeeper got a large bonus as a result, and the Lin family gained more money; Several authors who have been praised have also received more attention——
Even if there is no way to get more gold and silver because of this for the time being (the contract signed by the teahouse is a buyout), but relying on the reputation that has been established now, even if you don't contribute articles to the Lin's teahouse in the future, you can still get along well.
The shopkeeper was well-informed, and couldn't help telling Qingliu that those authors had been contacted by several teahouses and taverns, and the other party took the price difference ten times higher than the Lin's teahouse, and wanted to poach people into their own territory.Two of the four authors have already been moved, and have even secretly started writing new stories, and they will switch jobs to other places when the story in hand is over.
Zhou Yao was a little curious after hearing the news. Unlike her, these four authors were almost all held by the teahouse. Now that they want to change jobs, doesn't the shopkeeper mind?No revenge?
Qingliu quickly relayed the shopkeeper's words to her——
"What is there to care about? As long as the teahouse has the golden signboard of Mr., there is no fear that there will be no new stories and new authors coming. As long as Mr. is willing to pick out a few spiritual pointers from it, these authors are now Isn’t the grades coming at your fingertips? If you want to leave, I don’t believe that these people can still have the fame and attention they have today after leaving the Lin’s teahouse.”
The shopkeeper dared to say such a thing, relying on the signboard of Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber.As long as Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber does not leave, the customers of the teahouse will not be lost. As long as the customers do not lose, it is just a few authors, and they will be picked up soon after a little training.
Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber is the confidence of the Lin Family Tea House.
Zhou Yao didn't know that the shopkeeper valued her so much, but after hearing this statement, she couldn't hide the smile on her face——
Ever since she traveled to the world of Red Mansions, even when she was in the best mood, she felt like a big rock was pressing on her heart. Now, from the mouth of the shopkeeper, she has confirmed from the side that she has the foundation to gain a foothold in this world, and she no longer seems to have no roots. Like duckweed swaying from side to side, panicked, Zhou Yao's mood finally cleared the clouds.
The whole capital knew about the book "The Widow" and the name of Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Red Chamber.Many of them wanted to find out the identity of Menghonglou out of curiosity, but Zhou Yao, who had the triple protection of the shopkeeper, the Lin family, and the Xianwang Mansion, had her identity well protected.
So when the popularity of "The Widow" passes, Zhou Yao can still continue to live her own life without any interruption.
On this day, Zhou Yao finally persuaded Zhou's mother to agree to her idea of moving out of Zhou's house.
Although she agreed, the expression on Zhou's mother's face was not very happy.
After Zhou Yao's brothers moved her luggage into the small courtyard they had chosen before, Zhou's mother called Zhou Yao to her face and said with a serious face: "Although you have moved out of the house, you must remember that you are still a Members of the Zhou family. When you encounter problems in the future, don’t feel troublesome to your brothers, just go to the house and tell them that your brothers are at your disposal.”
Zhou Yao smiled calmly: "Daughter knows. I'm not stupid. How could I resist myself when I really encountered something? Those brothers of mine are not just for display? If someone doesn't have eyes, just let a few brothers go to him Stand in front of me, hey, good guy, a row of strong men, see if anyone dares to bully me!"
What Zhou Yao said was very graphic, which caused Zhou's mother to laugh out loud without controlling her expression.
If you want to keep a straight face after breaking the skills, it will not be so convincing.
Mother Zhou sighed, but didn't say anything more.
Not only this small courtyard, she also bought the big house that Zhou Yao was looking at before. Now that Zhou Yao's house has been moved, the whole family of the Zhou family has to move into the big house as soon as possible. There is really no time. Talk to her more.
Anyway, if she said it, she might not listen.
After all the dust has settled, Zhou Yao is also ready to start writing the finale of "Lu Sheng".
Taking time out before, Zhou Yao has already written a part of the manuscript, and now there is only a complete finale, so she can put down the book and start thinking about the next story.
Zhou Yao already has the prototype of the next story in her heart, and now she just waits for "Lu Sheng" to end.
……
After more than ten years of hard work, Lu Sheng has now sat on a high position, and has become the fastest in history to climb to the top position, and also the most trusted official of the emperor.
With a beautiful wife and concubine in his arms, fame and fortune accompanied by him, it stands to reason that Lu Sheng has reached the pinnacle of his life, so he should have nothing else to ask for.
However, for some reason, Lu Sheng felt as if a big hole was missing in his heart. He always felt that the wind was leaking, and the cold was so cold that his whole body was icy cold, and he couldn't even sleep soundly at night.
Lu Sheng felt that he might have run into something evil, so he handed over a letter of invitation to the emperor overnight and told him to return home.
There is a Huangliang Temple in his hometown, and there is an eminent monk in the temple, who is the most effective.
Lu Sheng took his family to visit the eminent monk.
However, the eminent monk raised his hand and scattered all the beautiful wives and concubines, gold, silver and jewelry he brought, and turned into powder before Lu Sheng's eyes, annihilated in the world.
The strange thing is that Lu Sheng didn't feel sad about it.
He looked at the eminent monk, seemed to think of something, but didn't seem to think of anything, his eyes were empty and confused, and he was muttering words.
Seeing this, the eminent monk put his index finger and middle finger together, and touched directly between Lu Sheng's eyebrows: "Idiot, it's time to wake up!"
Lu Sheng was shocked and sat up from the bed in an instant, only then did he realize that everything before was just a dream.
A sweet dream?
Lu Sheng burst into tears immediately, and the tears flowed out for nothing: "Yun Wan, my Yun Wan...it turned out to be just a dream..."
He seemed to remember something, turned over and got up from the bed, stumbled and rushed out.
He met many pedestrians on the road, speaking words that he could not understand.
Someone tried to grab Lu Sheng, but he threw him away violently, and Lu Sheng himself fell a piece of shit because of the reaction force.
However, he didn't care about these.
Lu Sheng continued to run forward...
He ran out of the street where his home was located, ran out of the West Market, and ran out of the city...
It wasn't until he came to the mass grave in the suburbs that he finally stopped.
He looked at the large and small graves in a daze, at the corpses wrapped in straw mats and thrown everywhere, and the scattered bones that couldn't make up a human being. He smiled miserably and fell to the ground in an instant.
"Yun Wan..." He called out in a low voice.
The name slipped around his lips, with a refreshing and rich aroma, which fascinated Lu Sheng.
He lay down on the ground and just fell asleep.
It was not until the next day that Lu Sheng's neighbors found him at the mass grave.
Neighbors cursed and carried him back home.On the way home, the neighbor scolded in disgust: "Isn't it just a woman? It's worth your life and death for her, and you don't even have a human face? Tell me about you, even if you rely on an amazing ventriloquist Can you live a good life, and when you have saved enough money, you can choose as many young wives as you want?"
"A Zhao Yunwan, no matter how good-looking she is..." He paused for a moment, then sneered, "Everyone is dead, so how come they can live to marry you?"
"Don't think my words are ugly. This is the way things are in this world. Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat dried shrimps, but those dried shrimps deserve to die? If Zhao Yunwan is still alive, she will see you now. This trash looks like I should scold you too!"
The neighbor babbled a lot, but unfortunately, Lu Sheng didn't listen to a single word.
When the neighbor finally delivered him to the house, before he could put him on the bed, Lu Sheng suddenly got up, picked up a kitchen knife, and rushed out the door again. The neighbor was startled, and quickly chased him out.
Looking at the scenery along the way, the panic on the neighbor's face became more and more intense——
This road is the one leading to Zhao Yunwan's former home.
But Zhao Yunwan's parents were long gone, and Zhao Yunwan herself was sold into a brothel, and was later redeemed by a nobleman and given to an even bigger nobleman...
After being sent to the home of a great man, even if it is just a concubine of an Israeli servant, she should be well-clothed and well-fed, and she should eat delicious food and spicy food.It's a pity that Zhao Yunwan was not the one to enjoy the blessings, so she hanged herself within a day after being sent to the big man's house, and she just disappeared.
How many people sighed at this.
However, no matter what happened to Zhao Yunwan before, it is a fact that she died.Zhao Yunwan's home has already been taken over by her relatives——
That nest relative was the one who sold Zhao Yunwan into the brothel.
Even if others look down on this family, they got the Zhao family's house and the money from Zhao Yunwan's prostitution. They lived a happy life and didn't care about other people's gossip at all.
But Zhao Yunwan is Lu Sheng's sweetheart, and that family is Zhao Yunwan's enemies, and Lu Sheng is still carrying a kitchen knife...
The neighbor didn't pay attention to the road and tripped over a stone in the middle of the road and fell to the ground. He could only watch Lu Sheng disappear before his eyes.
"Life--" the neighbor yelled in horror, "Lu Sheng is going to kill someone!"
The neighbors around heard this and went out one after another, and the neighbor quickly told about Lu Sheng running to Zhao Yunwan's house with a knife.Now, everyone understood what Lu Sheng wanted to do.
Everyone present watched Lu Sheng and Zhao Yunwan grow up. Zhao Yunwan was gone, so how could they want to see Lu Sheng lose his life because of avenging her?
Each of them didn't even have time to say a word, so they quickly ran towards Zhao's house with their heads buried.
It's a pity it's still too late...
When everyone heard a howl and ran to the gate of Zhao's house, all relatives of Zhao Yunwan's family, no matter how old or young, were hacked to death by Lu Sheng.
As for Lu Sheng, standing in the middle of the courtyard covered in blood, his eyes were empty, as if he had lost his soul long ago.
"what--"
There were those who were timid and screamed in fright at the scene, and many people were so stimulated by the red, white and white pictures that they vomited out...
The neighbor who had carried Lu Sheng back from the mass grave before boldly stepped forward and called "Lu Sheng", but got no response.
He swallowed, tiptoed and tried to get closer to Lu Sheng.Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, Lu Sheng caught Lu Sheng's sideways gaze.
Stared at by his empty eyes, the neighbor was too scared to walk no matter how courageous he was.
His legs went limp, and he collapsed directly to the ground.
"Lu Sheng..." The neighbor felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he didn't know how to persuade him.
There is no way to persuade him, he has killed people all over the place, and he has killed a lot of people, even if he is extraneous, it is absolutely impossible to spare his life.
We all grew up together...
The policemen who heard the news were also taken aback by the scene before them, but after all, they had seen a lot of murder scenes, so they were much calmer than others.
And the scene in front of me is very obvious, the killed, murdered, and witnesses are all complete, they just need to arrest people...
The leading catcher came forward with a few small catchers, trying to snatch the kitchen knife from Lu Sheng's hand.
bang——
Lu Sheng let go, and the kitchen knife fell directly on the grass, making a slight noise.
The head catcher took a step back in fright.
When he realized that his actions were too timid, he looked at the others in embarrassment.
However, the others didn't notice his small movement at all.
The head catcher heaved a sigh of relief, and was about to shout loudly, so that the murderer would realize his mistake...
bang——
This time, it was Lu Sheng who fell to the ground.
The head catcher didn't care about anything else, so he hurried forward to call for someone, but he didn't get any response at all.He swallowed, stretched out his index finger to check Lu Sheng's breath...
"Dead." The head catcher turned around in surprise.
……
Afterwards, the county magistrate tried the case, and only then did he piece together the whole story from the mouths of many of Lu Sheng's neighbors.
It turned out that Lu Sheng and Zhao Yunwan were childhood sweethearts, and they had promised each other for life.
Lu Sheng was an orphan, so he had the final say on the marriage, and Zhao Yunwan's parents didn't think highly of Lu Sheng, but Lu Sheng worked hard, and gradually won the favor of Zhao's parents.
Seeing that everything is going well, who knows that something unexpected happened, the Zhao family's parents encountered an accident when they went out to do business, and both husband and wife lost their lives.
The family hacked to death by Lu Sheng were relatives of the Zhao family. They rushed over after getting the news, and they didn't plan to hold a funeral for the Zhao family's parents, so they directly occupied the Zhao family's real estate. They even thought that Zhao Yunwan was beautiful. He came up with the idea of selling her into a brothel to make a fortune.
It's a pity that Zhao Yunwan was smart enough to see through the family's thoughts, so in the middle of the night, she dragged her parents' corpses to the street with a cart, intending to sell herself to bury her father.
Before that, Zhao Yunwan wanted to go to find Lu Sheng.
However, when Lu Sheng went out to set up a stall to perform ventriloquist for people the day before, he was picked on by a bully, and then he was beaten unconscious, and now he is recuperating at home——
The money that Lu Sheng originally saved for marrying Zhao Yunwan was also wasted because of this accident.
Zhao Yunwan had no choice but to take the road of prostitution.
However, before she was spotted, her jackal-like relative found her, dragged her to the brothel, and sold her on the spot.
The corpses of the poor Zhao family's parents were directly dragged to the mass grave by his relatives and thrown away without even digging a hole for burial.
Later, I heard that Zhao Yunwan tried to escape from the brothel once, and successfully connected with Lu Sheng, and the two planned to elope.
Unexpectedly, the thugs in the brothel arrived soon, and then arrested Lu Sheng and threatened Zhao Yunwan.
Zhao Yunwan had to follow the thugs back.
Later, Zhao Yunwan became a famous oiran in the brothel because of her beauty. In order to get close to Zhao Yunwan, Lu Sheng ruined his face, changed his accent and entered the brothel to perform for others.
However, God might want to fight against this lover. Not long after, someone wanted to redeem Zhao Yunwan's body, and the old bustard agreed.
If Lu Sheng wanted to see Zhao Yunwan again, he would lose his chance.
There was no news from Zhao Yunwan either.
A few months later, Zhao Yunwan died in the home of another powerful man.
……
In order to write this turning point well, Zhou Yao wrote and changed the ending, changed and wrote again, wasted countless papers and pens and discarded more than a dozen versions, and finally got a satisfactory ending.
Zhou Yao sorted out all the manuscripts of "Lu Sheng", and handed them all over to Qingliu, asking her to pass them on to the shopkeeper.
Then, this ending caused a lot of scolding...
Because most of the stories written by authors in this era are very short, when Zhou Yao handed over the finale of "Lu Sheng" to the shopkeeper, two of the four novels that were previously promoted had already been completed.
"Lu Sheng" was given to the shopkeeper with the finale, so the shopkeeper simply used the time vacated after the completion of the previous two books to tell the story of "Lu Sheng".
The shopkeeper has read the ending in advance, so he knows that there are many foreshadowings buried in the previous plot.
Because he was worried that the customer had forgotten the previous plot, the shopkeeper specially asked Mr. He to re-tell the previous content, and then continued with the content that Zhou Yao gave him.
And before telling the ending, the shopkeeper seemed to have expected that the guests would riot because of this, so he took countless protective measures, especially around Mr. He, and even found more than a dozen skilled thugs to protect him closely, just because he was worried After Mr. tells this ending, it will lead to the tragic scene in the ending of "The Widow", where Mr. He is almost beaten by a furious guest.
However, even if the shopkeeper thinks that he has made enough preparations, when the ending of the story is really told from Mr. He's mouth, the violent reaction of the guests still catches the shopkeeper by surprise——
When the ending of "The Widow" came out, even if the guests rioted, but because it can be justified, there are only a few people who are really excited enough to want to hit someone.However, as soon as the ending of "Lu Sheng" came out, the heroine died early, and the male protagonist died, not to mention everyone.The story between the key male and female protagonists has nothing to do with the previous ones (in their opinion), it's like Meng Honglou couldn't think of a better ending, so they just wrote a magical twist to fool the audience.
The guests in the tea house wanted to kill people!
Fortunately, the shopkeeper's preparations were not useless. Although he did not expect the reaction of the guests to be so intense, those preparations stopped all those who wanted to hurt Mr. He.
The only accident was that the guests accidentally hit someone when they threatened Mr. He because they were too excited, and a group fight broke out.
Shopkeeper: "..." Woohoo, madam will kill me!
However, after all the emotional guests were taken away because of their injuries, the remaining rational guests began to analyze the foreshadowing of the story of "Lu Sheng"——
For example, every beauty that the protagonist Lu Sheng meets, no matter how fat she is, how thin she is, or what kind of style she is, but the mole at the corner of her eye and the scar on her arm never change; It can be consistent with Zhao Yunwan's experience that the neighbors talked about after Lu Sheng woke up from the dream; for example, every time Lu Sheng met a beauty, he fell in love with each other at an astonishing speed, and after having a new beauty, before It seems that the beauties who have been taken into the back house by Lu Sheng have never appeared again; for example...
After analyzing the clues one by one by the boss, the guests of the teahouse suddenly discovered that Mr. Meng Honglou had laid so many foreshadowings in the plot before "Lu Sheng".
The boss who analyzed the plot of the clues directly used the grass snake gray line to describe this writing method, and gave an example that Mr. Meng Honglou did not use this writing method to the extreme, but only the current ones are enough to describe the "Lu Sheng" The story pushes to a peak that others cannot reach.
And "Lu Sheng" is just a love story after all, the main line of the novel seems to be only love besides Lu Sheng's road to promotion and fortune.
However, the audience of "Lu Sheng" knows in their hearts that the line of Lu Sheng's promotion and fortune is written vividly and clearly, without any hidden foreshadowing at all.
Mr. Meng Honglou's ability to use the grass snake gray line to this extent in a love story has already paid attention to explaining its excellence.
But for many people, what this ending brings them is not only a finished story, but also a rebuttal about the fact that "Lu Sheng" is not as good as "The Widow", so Mr. Meng Honglou has exhausted his talents.
It was almost like a loud slap, directly slapped on the faces of those who spoke out loud.
But before these guests could analyze more, a shocking cry broke out in the private room on the second floor of the teahouse——
"Woooooh, Lu Sheng is so infatuated, Zhao Yunwan is so happy..."
???
The guests downstairs stared wide-eyed, and wanted to go upstairs and ask the person who said this if there was something wrong with his mind: Lu Sheng is infatuated, but why is Zhao Yunwan so happy?She died in love with her father and mother, was sold into a brothel by her relatives, and suffered countless sufferings that ordinary people could hardly imagine. No matter what, it has nothing to do with happiness, right?
"Lu Sheng is so miserable, those villains are too hateful, how can we break up lovers..."
???
Do wicked people need a reason for doing bad things?And it's not a big mistake to break up a lover, right?Shouldn't you condemn them for buying and selling people, for collusion between officials and businessmen, and for officials and officials to protect each other?
"Wow, if I could get Lu Sheng's attention, I would be willing to die immediately..."
Everyone: "..."
Just as everyone was waiting for some shocking words to be uttered in the private room, the door of the private room opened with a "squeak", and two young girls walked out of it hand in hand.
One of them was Miss Ji who had a notorious reputation in the capital.
However, the two girls were crying with tears in their eyes, and no one could tell which one was speaking just now.
Xu Shi noticed the gaze on the first floor, and Miss Ji directly looked down at the first floor. After meeting the eyes of the guests on the first floor, Miss Ji immediately wiped away her tears and gave everyone downstairs a fierce look: "What are you looking at? Didn't you see?" Women cry!"
Miss Ji's reputation... ahem...
Forget it, Miss Ji doesn't care about her reputation at all anyway.
On the contrary, it was the girl who was protected by Miss Ji, which aroused the curiosity of many people.But even if these people are thinking about it, they will never guess that this girl who is protected by Miss Ji is the most favored by the emperor, and her reputation has always been corresponding to gentleness, virtuousness, generosity and decency...His Royal Highness Sixth Princess .
And what these people never imagined was that the various remarks that surprised them before were not said by Miss Ji, but by the sixth princess who couldn't help shouting out of her emotions...
Heartfelt words.
Otherwise, why can Miss Ji and Princess Six be best friends?They are essentially the same kind of people.
It's a pity that the sixth princess, as a royal princess, is watched by many people every word and deed, and she can't and dare not do things according to her will.
But after these words of the sixth princess were pinned to Miss Ji, they spread throughout the capital as she wept loudly.
No matter when, the effects of celebrity effects are amazing.
There was an "advertisement" in which Miss Ji was moved to tears by the story of "Lu Sheng", and then the teahouse once again brought out "Lu Sheng" as a story, and the seats were also full.
And because of the unique writing style of "Lu Sheng", many customers with poor memory went directly to the shopkeeper of the teahouse, trying to persuade him to publish the story of "Lu Sheng" in a book, so they could buy a book and go back to find Dream Red Mansion by themselves. The foreshadowing left by Mr. in the previous chapters will not cause people to be confused when they hear the previous clues.
The shopkeeper smiled wryly, he was just a shopkeeper of a tea house, not a shopkeeper of a book shop, how could he publish books as soon as he said he would?
But the prospect of "Lu Sheng" is good, and "The Widow" was a big hit before, presumably soon there will be booksellers who want to make money to come to publish books for "Lu Sheng".
Thinking of this, the shopkeeper's face was full of smiles: "Don't worry, everyone, "Lu Sheng" is very popular, and it will be published sooner or later. When the news of "Lu Sheng" comes out, the old man will definitely be in the teahouse It will be widely publicized, and you will never miss the first-hand news."
The guests who came to block people left satisfied.
However, the hustle and bustle of the capital has nothing to do with Tu Min——
Tu Min listened to the emperor
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