[Red Mansion] Mrs. Lin, the Buddhist family

The book on the theme of cultivating immortals has just been released, and it has attracted many scholars to buy it.

Mingxin Teahouse, these teahouses and teahouses belonging to the Lin family, started telling stories the day before the book was released, which attracted a group of customers to the Lin family bookstore to buy "Story Collection".

Although it is a pity that the stories in "Story Collection" are not as novel as expected, compared with other bookstores, the content of "Story Collection" is already a rare innovation, and readers will naturally not feel dissatisfied.

Afterwards, Linjiashusi held many essay solicitations, which added a lot of content for those literati who made a living by writing scripts. Although there were no ones who paid attention to the history and left their names, the quality was very high and it was very popular with the public. In the end, it was not only adapted in major teahouses and became the favorite of storytellers, but also many of them were adapted into operas, which spread throughout Daxia with the performances of major opera troupes traveling across the country.

And this is also due to the content of the first issue of "Story Collection".

Although the ten stories in "Story Collection" all start with the same gifted scholars and beautiful ladies as usual, the climax and ending part are unexpectedly subverted.Because of the unexpected development of these endings, it caused quite a stir among those who like scriptures——

This is what Jia Shu did not expect after picking out these stories and asking the people from the Lin Family Bookshop to find these people and ask them to change the ending according to their own requirements.

Jia Shu originally thought that it would take a year or two for readers to accept the ending of such a story.

Of course, what she didn't expect was that the "Story Collection" spread word of mouth in the teahouse, which caused many people to quarrel and discuss, and even brought greater benefits to the Lin Family Bookstore——

A well-known theater troupe in the capital was very moved after hearing one of the stories, especially after hearing that the story came from "Story Collection" and after people bought it back and read it, they felt that there were several stories in it. All these stories are suitable to be adapted into operas and put on stage.

That troupe has many sincerely loved and noble audiences.

After the head of the theater troupe had such an idea, and found those dignitaries to express his thoughts, he was brought to the Lin family.

Lin's mother was a little jealous of the actor's identity, if it wasn't for the sake of that powerful person, it would be impossible for the troupe owner to come in.

So in the end, the troupe master and dignitaries were received by Jia Shu.

"You mean, you want to buy the stories in "Story Collection" and turn them into opera performances?" Jia Shu was a little dazed, "Are you sure?"

In ancient times, opera was basically equivalent to modern film and television dramas. It was a pastime that almost everyone longed for. The "Jiaer" who was really popular with the audience was even as popular as a superstar among the people of Daxia.

Although an actor's status is low, but if he really becomes a role and has won the sincere love of the powerful, he is not an existence that can be easily bullied.

The theater troupe owner felt that his status was low, and he didn't dare to take on Joe. When he heard Jia Shu's question, he explained his plan in detail: "Back to the countess, the ten stories in the "Story Collection", the common people read Afterwards, I found that several of them are very suitable to be changed into operas and performed on stage." He glanced at Jia Shu carefully, "Among them, the most popular among grassroots is "Actor's Complaint", and please allow me to write it later. Adapted from this story."

Jia Shu frowned, feeling that this development was somewhat unexpected.

But when she thought of the identity of the other party, she felt normal again, and she couldn't help but nodded: "You said that you want to adapt several stories? You have taken a fancy to a certain story in the past and wanted to adapt it into an opera. How did you do it? "

When the troupe owner heard that there was a play, he dared not hide it: "Mrs. Hui, other troupes have adapted stories from scriptures, but our troupe has never had the experience of adapting stories from scriptures into operas."

Generally speaking, there are three sources for the creation of new opera repertoires. One is completely original creation by the troupe itself;

Their troupe is fairly famous, rich, and has a lot of supporters, so they can rehearse one or two new pieces every month. Originally, there was no need to adapt the story.

It's just that the troupe owner really likes the story of "Actor's Complaint", so he was thinking about adapting it.

Jia Shu frowned immediately: "What do you mean by that?"

Could it be that he wanted them to take advantage of them and send the story to the troupe for adaptation?Even if the Lin family is rich and doesn't care about this little money, the masters who wrote those stories are not the Lin family, and they have to give others an explanation.

The theater troupe owner hurriedly knelt down: "Ma'am, I misunderstood. Although Caomin's theater troupe has no such experience, other theater troupes have done it. Caomin just doesn't know whether to copy their handling methods."

Most of the literati look down on these low-class pariahs, even if the people who wrote the scriptures are just low-ranking scholars, but for them who are at the bottom, their status is already very noble. If they are incompetent and have no reputation, They simply cannot meet the author who wrote the story.

Jia Shu softened his expression: "Tell me about how other troupes do it."

"Just give the original author of the story a sum of money..." When he said this, the troupe master didn't dare to look at Jia Shu.

It is precisely because he feels that this method is not applicable to Linjiashusi, the troupe owner has been trying to think of other solutions.

The troupe owner thought that Jia Shu would be angry, but saw her tilt her head to think for a while, and nodded directly: "In that case, why don't you just go to the shopkeeper of the book shop and tell you the name of the original author? Why do you have to come to see Lin's house?" I?"

The Lin Family Shusi has always valued reputation the most, so the troupe owner should not be distrustful.

The troupe owner looked stunned: "Madam, would you like to tell Cao Min the name of the original author of the story?"

If you tell him, he can go to contact the original author himself without going through the Lin family bookstore. How much money he can spend to buy the story later is beyond the control of the Lin family bookstore.

Jia Shu didn't care at all: "You go directly to the shopkeeper of the book store."

When the theater troupe leader left, he was in a daze: "Caomin thought that the Countess would not be willing to let people adapt the story into an opera..."

After all, those stories are told by storytellers in teahouses and teahouses, which is also a considerable sum of money.

He was ready to ask for help, but he didn't expect the matter to be solved so easily, so he felt unreal.

Within a few months, six of the ten stories in the first issue of "Story Collection" were adapted into operas, and among them was "Actor's Complaint", which was the troupe's favorite.Surprisingly, most of these repertoires were well received by the audience, and almost every actor who performed these repertoires became familiar to the audience, and many of them even redeemed themselves for this.

Because of this, in the eyes of the troupe's actors, "Story Collection" is completely a piece of meat that can't be grabbed.

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Jia Shu saw the popularity of these songs, and suddenly his mind became alive——

Opera alone has been welcomed by so many people. If she directly asked people to adapt the story into a drama and put it on stage, wouldn't it be more popular than drama?

She even thought of the portraits for her two children.

Jia Shu has always insisted on drawing a portrait of the two children every day, because there are so many portraits, and the portraits that are separated by a day or two do not change much. Feel.

In ancient times, don’t even think about making live-action movies——

Even in foreign countries, silent movies have not yet appeared, and even the appearance of cameras is still very early.

But silent animated films are still conceivable.

Jia Shu remembers that in modern times, there was a country where animation was very famous. In that country, there was a great animation man who was famous all over the country. Even in the 21st century, when animations can be completely made by computer, he still insisted on hand-painting movie screens, and every day The appearance of a movie is the accumulation of more than [-] animation manuscripts.

If the problem of not being able to play the images at exactly the same frequency can be solved, it would not seem so embarrassing to make a silent animation movie.

But at present, Jia Shu can only think about whether it is a drama or an animation movie.

She didn't even tell anyone else what she thought.

But before that, Jia Shu did another thing first.

The enlightenment of the two children was a bit hard.But to recognize a word, Lin Ruhai will not teach them word by word by himself, but directly teach them to recite the Three-Character Classic. allusions.

Jia Shu was a little surprised by this, and felt that this kind of enlightenment was not very efficient, and it was too much of a burden for the child——

If you don't know the words, you have to start to endorse, and you are doing things?

Even if the two children were very smart, Lin Ruhai only taught them to recite the Three Character Classic four or five times, and they could recite the Three Character Classic by themselves. Jia Shu still felt that it was too foolish.

The key is that the two children are only three years old.

Therefore, Jia Shu simply asked people to draw the characters in the Three Character Classic into pictures, and then taught them to recognize characters.When the characters were almost recognizable, she drew the allusions into villain paintings to deepen their impression.

It has to be said that Jia Shu’s approach not only simplified the learning process of the two children, but also greatly enhanced the children’s interest.After Lin Ruhai and Lin's mother saw what Jia Shu made, they were full of admiration, and they simply asked Jia Shu to turn all the enlightenment reading materials of the two children into storybooks with pictures.

Jia Shu chose to prepare the enlightenment books for his children——

The words were all written by Lin Ruhai, and the paintings were drawn by her stroke by stroke. In order to make the children like it, she even colored the paintings.

The two children naturally liked it very much.

Lin Ruhai originally planned for the two children to memorize the Three Character Classic within one year and master all the allusions in it. After the two children got the enlightenment book with pictures, it was completed in less than two months.

Seeing the good effect, Lin Ruhai was even more happy, and then took the two children to start the next stage of study.

And those books that have been mastered by the two children are useless.

Jia Shu originally wanted to keep the books well, but Lin's mother was unexpectedly interested in those books, and then opened her mouth to keep them, and then read them from time to time.

Mother Lin really loves those books, so she often takes them with her wherever she goes. Occasionally, she will leave the books where she read them before, and she doesn't take them back in time.

Then these storybooks were seen by the shopkeeper of the bookstore who came to report the business situation of the Lin family bookstore.

He immediately saw a business opportunity in it——

Because of the way of printing, comic books with pictures are not popular.

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica contains many portraits of herbs, but they were all printed with engraving in the past, and the cost was so high that no one ever thought of combining pictures with stories.

After the Lin family saw the picture book for children's enlightenment, several shopkeepers put their ideas on it.

After Jia Shu stopped the thoughts of several shopkeepers, he just hesitated, and he simply asked them to take the enlightenment books for the two children to the printing workshop for engraving.

In the beginning, the books printed by the printing workshop were naturally without color.Moreover, although these books have pictures, but because the content of the books themselves is for children's enlightenment, and the price is several times more expensive than the traditional three-character classics, it has not attracted the attention of scholars.

Those scholars who accidentally opened these books even thought that Lin Family Bookstore printed the good San Zi Jing and other books like that, which was nothing but grandstanding and not of much use.

Within half a year after the book was printed, even if the three shopkeepers of the Lin family book shop hired people to make a big publicity, it did not cause any waves in the capital.

This was completely unexpected by the three shopkeepers. They thought that such books would be very popular.

And some time ago, I got used to the smooth sailing, and every decision made by Jia Shu caused a great sensation in the capital of the Lin family bookstore, and made money that might not have been earned for decades before, which made the three shopkeepers My mood became a little swollen, as if I felt that as long as it was a new trick created by Lin Jiashu, it would definitely be welcomed by scholars.

However, reality teaches how to be a human being, and within half a year, none of those enlightenment books were sold.

Because the decision to print and sell books such as the cards for literacy and the Three Character Classic for Enlightenment was an idea proposed by the three shopkeepers, so after discovering that this idea not only did not bring business to the Lin Family Bookshop, it actually made the Lin Family Bookshop make a lot of money at the beginning. After earning a lot of money for several years, they lost a lot of money. The three shopkeepers were a little hard to accept. At the same time, their hearts were full of guilt and fear.

They have been the shopkeepers of the Lin Family Bookstore for so many years. Although they didn't make the bookshop make a lot of money before, at least they still guaranteed the bookstore's profit and didn't make the bookstore lose money, right?

But now, one of their proposals has caused the Lin Family Bookshop to lose money.They felt sorry for the Lin family, and at the same time they were afraid that Jia Shu would be disappointed in them because of this mistake, so they simply replaced them all.

However, when Jia Shu saw the account books of that month, he didn't take it seriously at all: "Because of technical reasons, it was time-consuming and labor-intensive for the printing house to print these books. There were not many printed finished products, and there were not many losses."

Moreover, it is impossible that no one really buys those enlightenment books. Now it is just that the time has not come. No one has discovered the fact that although these books are more expensive than ordinary three-character classics, they are better for enlightening children.

"Leave it alone, don't worry." Jia Shu comforted the three shopkeepers.

The difference between teaching aids and enlightenment readings is that the former is an original creation with a different approach, while the latter is a change and innovation on the classics that readers have long been accustomed to. Compared with the two, the former is naturally easier to be accepted, while the latter is naturally easy to read. Be prejudiced.

When Jia Shu promised to print and sell the enlightenment reading and word recognition cards, he was ready to be scolded.Although no one bought those books nowadays, at least no literati wrote articles to point her nose and scold her. This is already a good result.

Jia Shu didn't know, those literati wanted to scold, but while buying the supplementary books and test question sets of the Lin Family Bookshop, they also took the answers written by Lin Tanhua or the Lin Family Bookshop...

These self-confident and fame-loving scholars don't bother to do the business of eating with a bowl and putting down the bowl to scold their mothers.

The three shopkeepers looked at each other, and said to themselves, Mrs. Lin said it lightly. As the people who made this suggestion, how could they not be in a hurry or worried?

But Jia Shu had said so, and as subordinates, they could only obey.

These enlightenment books were placed on the bookshelves of the Lin Family Bookstore for two full years, and the number sold was even less than ten fingers.If it hadn't been cleaned every day, the three storekeepers had every reason to believe that these books would definitely be covered with a thick layer of dust.

However, the countess didn't know what was wrong. She knew that no one would buy the new version of the Three Character Classic, but she still sent a new book with the same typesetting and pictures to the printing house every once in a while, and each book would be printed at least tens of thousands copy, and then sent dozens of copies to every Lin family bookstore in Daxia.

The shopkeepers only felt tired, but they didn't dare to comment on Jia Shu's behavior, so they could only silently move the books to the corner to prevent them from occupying a good place.

Just when the old shopkeepers of the Lin family bookstore all felt that these books could only fall into their hands, the good news came from a Lin family bookstore in Jiangnan. Good news came one after another——

In just two months, the inventory of the Lin family book shop in the south of the Yangtze River was exhausted, and then Fei Ge sent a letter to the book shop in Beijing to send a set of printing type, patterns, and printing methods for those books.

The letter also said that if the books in the capital could not be sold out, they could send them along with the movable type and patterns, and they would ask for as many as they had. The rich and powerful tone did not worry that the books would not be sold at all.

Several Lin family bookstores in the capital got the news, and Jia Shu naturally knew about it earlier than them.

Lin Ruhai has also become calm now, and his first reaction when he heard the news was: "Could someone want to please the Lin family by buying these books?"

In just two years, Lin Ruhai's official position has not changed, but he has gained enough sense of presence in front of Emperor Qisheng——

Not long ago, Lin Ruhai and a group of people finally sorted out and repaired all the royal collections. At the same time, they also had the prototype of the book they wanted to repair: the encyclopedia.

After Lin Ruhai sorted out all the books in his collection, Lin Ruhai was depressed all day long, and after Jia Shu's inquiry, he learned that he was worried about the content of the book, and told him.

But the inspiration for the encyclopedia was not Jia Shu’s idea. She would propose it. She suddenly remembered that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, she presided over the compilation of an ancient version of the encyclopedia——"Siku Quanshu", so she came up with this proposal.

It's undeniably a brilliant idea.

When Lin Ruhai reported this idea to Emperor Qisheng, he agreed to the proposal without hesitation, and then Lin Ruhai plunged into the life of writing books.

Everyone knows the so-called Wenzhiwugong. If such a book is edited and compiled, this book alone will be enough to add a glamorous record to Emperor Qisheng's Wenzhi.

Because of this, Lin Ruhai, who made this suggestion, received special attention from Emperor Qisheng, and from time to time, He Wenyi would announce him to the upper study.

Seeing that Lin Ruhai's holy family is gathering, even surpassing Duke Rong Jia Daishan at one point, it is inevitable that others will be tempted by him.In these years, countless treasures, silver and beauties were sent to the Lin family during the holidays, and the gift givers were full of tricks, which greatly opened Jia Shu's horizons——

In her previous life, Jia Shu had been fighting at the forefront. Although she had encountered such things occasionally, it was the first time she had seen them with tricks that could be written out of a book.

So Lin Ruhai suspected that someone was trying to curry favor with him, and it was not impossible.

Jia Shu shook his head and denied after reading the news from the book shop in the south of the Yangtze River: "These books were indeed bought by real people."

Lin Ruhai couldn't help being curious: "Did no one buy it before?"

Although Lin Ruhai didn't care about the Lin family's property, Jia Shu would tell him the final result every time he checked the accounts, so he also knew that few scholars would buy those enlightenment books that even he found amazing. .

"It is said that among the students taught by a master in a private school in the south of the Yangtze River, some of the students were too young to sit still, which made him very distressed. So when he saw these books by accident, he thought it was interesting, so he hugged the dead horse as a With the mentality of a living horse doctor, I bought a few books and brought them back to the private school to give to some students."

"I didn't expect those students to be ecstatic after getting the book, and they couldn't put it down after taking it home. They are not as tired of studying as before. The master is in the school, but they can't sit still in their seats."

After the ten-day examination, these students even had a firmer grasp of knowledge than other students who had been studying hard, and they answered the questions more smoothly.

Those students who were serious about studying felt aggrieved. After figuring out why those students had such a big change, they inevitably went home and cried.How sharp can a child's mouth be when they are enlightened?They didn't explain the cause and effect at all, so that in the end, the parents of those students only thought that it was the master who gave those students a little trouble.

Now, the parents of those students are naturally unwilling.

Everyone pays the same Shuxiu money, how come in the end, the master actually made a small fuss for others?They send their children to private schools so that they can get a good reputation and avoid the hard work of digging food in the fields in the future. If they are lucky, they can get a scholar and reduce the corvee for the family. This is a great thing.

As a result, the children were just enlightened, and the master began to treat them differently. How could the parents of these children not mind?

Those who are smarter will go to the master with gifts in large and small bags, and want the master to take care of the children more, and then give the children a small treatment in the future, and they must not forget their children.

Those who are more stupid will simply go to the master to make a fuss. If the master does not give a suitable reason, they will take the children to change to a private school.

Fortunately, the master is a good person. After those children who couldn't sit still got good grades, they simply bought another enlightenment book for other children out of their own pockets.

The other children got the books, and their enthusiasm for reading increased, and the gap with the previous children who got the books in advance was quickly bridged.

Then, those enlightenment reading materials that were piled up in the corner of the Lin family bookshop to eat ashes became popular in a very short period of time, and they were sold out in a short time.