nycdaug Chapter 127: Liang Mancang and Wang Buzhong
Chapter 127: Liang Mancang and Wang Buzhong
"Ci'an, Xiaoman, Lin'an tabloids are so popular now, can your stories keep up?"
What Gu Changsheng was most worried about was not other things, but that the stories written by hand would not be able to keep up. After all, human energy is limited, and it is impossible to come up with various stories endlessly.
Besides, in order to get the tabloid out as soon as possible, Xie Ci'an and Lin Xiaoman have been thinking about the story every day for the past month.
Xie Ci'an, in particular, did almost nothing else and wrote furiously, his hands cramping several times.
This won't work. More people must write stories.
Lin Xiaoman said, "The Lin'an tabloid has printed information about the story collection. I wonder if anyone will go to the Jixiang Bookstore to ask about it."
Gu Changsheng shook his head, "Not really. Speaking of this, I have to admire you. How did you come up with those stories? Xiaoman, you don't know, but I heard from the owner of the Jixiang Bookstore in Lin'an Prefecture that the scholars there have been wondering who Liang Mancang is, who could write such a thrilling story."
"Some people say that Liang Mancang is an old scholar who has failed the provincial examinations for 20 to 30 years. Some people say that Liang Mancang is an old scholar who has been in the officialdom for many years." Gu Changsheng smiled and looked at Lin Xiaoman and said, "If they knew that Liang Mancang was a girl who had not yet reached the age of marriage, I wonder if they would be shocked."
"Brother Changsheng, please don't make fun of me. Those stories are beyond my imagination." Lin Xiaoman was most afraid that the topic would suddenly turn to her.
After all, those stories that were told to the outside world were told to her by an expert.
But no matter how much the master tells, the story must end one day, and it cannot continue to be written.
Just as Gu Changsheng worried, what is needed in running a tabloid is to have as many stories as possible and to strive for excellence in all stories, so that the tabloid can be sustained.
"No one is selling vernacular stories. Is it because the price we offer is too low?" Lin Xiaoman asked the question that was in his mind.
I thought that if the tabloid was a best-seller, the news printed in the tabloid would quickly spread among readers.
Whether they want to make money or prove themselves, they will come to us.
Xie Ci'an thought for a moment and shook his head, "The reward is not low. The price of a normal storybook is also around this price. Maybe your story is so shocking that it scared them."
"No, no, we must find a few people to write the story. If this goes on, Xie Ci'an will lose his ability to hold the pen." Lin Xiaoman said.
When Xie Ci'an heard this, the tips of his ears turned red. He had never heard that writing could cripple one's hands.
However, he often missed mealtimes because of writing stories. His mother thought that he had neglected sleep and food for the sake of fame and success.
Lin Jingzhe couldn't think of anyone who could do it. "The person I find must be knowledgeable, and not just a mediocre one like me. It's hard to find one!"
In Dayi Town, only the students of Mingyi Hall are knowledgeable.
Gu Changsheng smiled and said, "Well, tomorrow when we go to school, I will tell my classmates about the news that the Lin'an tabloid is collecting storybooks."
Lin Xiaoman knew that this matter could not be rushed.
The key is that there is no way to rush it.
Gu Changsheng came in a hurry with the silver and left in a hurry with the story.
Li Taohua frowned: "Why doesn't Changsheng stay for dinner recently?"
Lin Dajiang: "Maybe it's because of the heavy workload. Last time I heard Jingzhe say that in the spring of next year, Ci'an and Changsheng will both take exams."
"Ten years of hard study. It's not easy to be a scholar. I don't know how much Jingzhe has learned." Li Taohua was steaming glutinous rice for making steamed dumplings tomorrow, and she remembered the things her third sister-in-law asked her to find out.
She saw that Xie Ci'an was getting busier recently, so she didn't want Jingzhe to ask those questions.
Why did she agree to it in front of her third sister-in-law? She should have refused politely.
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Time flies, and it is June in a blink of an eye.
As the weather gets warmer, the grilled fish business at Ruyi Restaurant has slowly declined.
The amount of fish collected at Ruyi Tower was reduced by half.
Originally each family had four or five, but now each family has two.
Linda also said that when the weather is hottest in July and August, they might not collect fish.
Every household in Shanglin Village is used to catching fish every day, and the news brought by Linda caught the villagers off guard.
Many villagers knew that Li Erli had brought back chickens and ducks earlier. At first, they thought that the Lin and Li families had come up with some new way to make money.
Later, when the villagers saw what Li Erli brought back, they put their worries to rest.
Food is not cheap these days.
The most expensive thing when feeding chickens, pigs and ducks is food.
Even the worst corn can fill a person's stomach.
When people are hungry, there is no extra food to feed animals.
Otherwise, why would every household only raise one or two egg-laying hens?
However, a few families did buy some chickens and ducks to raise.
They all made some money with the Lin family. For example, Lin Dahai's family bought ten chickens and ducks each. The two sons of the village head also bought more than a dozen chickens and ducks each.
There were also four or five other households in the village, and even Lai Zi's mother bought a few.
The rest of the families were just waiting and watching. What if the Lin family became better off and raised chickens and ducks just for their own consumption? Wouldn't it be a huge loss for them to follow suit and raise some?
On the other hand, in Shadi Village, Li Zhong's family bought a lot of chickens and ducks. There were many children in the family, so in addition to some food, the eldest girl Xiaohe would take Xiaomei, Xiaolian and Zining from the fourth child's family to catch insects and earthworms.
The children had a great time and even brought back food for the chickens and ducks at home.
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Gu Changsheng's agitation in Mingyi Hall was quite effective.
The students of Mingyi Hall knew that the Lin'an Tabloid was founded by the Gu family, but they did not know that the original tabloid was just a few "grassroots teams" who pieced together stories.
Nowadays, students from the Lin'an Prefecture Academy occasionally write stories. The storekeeper there will send someone to bring the stories to Gu Changsheng every ten days or so, and Gu Changsheng will then take them to Shanglin Village.
Screening and identifying in Xie Ci'an's study.
Those who bring political commentary will be eliminated.
No mercy to those with color.
If you keep talking too much, you will be eliminated immediately.
So, out of the twenty or thirty stories, only two looked good.
After reading one of the articles, "A Strange Case in the County Court," Xie Ci'an was amazed. "Xiao Man, look at this one. It's quite similar to your "Notes on the Case Solving by the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple."
Lin Xiaoman thought he had encountered a plagiarist in ancient times, so he took the book and read it from beginning to end.
The story tells of a frustrated young master from an aristocratic family who repeatedly failed the imperial examinations. When he was over 30, his family arranged for him to be a magistrate in a remote county. In the county, there was a disappearance every three days and a murder every five days. The young master, who was originally disheartened and didn't care about anything, had to take charge of these murders, otherwise he would have no peace in the future. His assistant is a county magistrate in his forties. He was originally a butcher. Because his family fell into poverty, he came to the county magistrate to find a job as a coroner by chance.
The story tells about how two rookies grow up in adversity and eventually solve many strange cases.
Actually, it’s not plagiarism. I just imitated some of her ideas for solving the case in her story.
Also, the methods of murder described in the newspapers were not rigorous, but their tabloids were only sold in Lin'an Prefecture, and tabloids were originally meant to be entertaining in one's spare time, so their rigor was not very important.
Lin Xiaoman looked at the signature on the paper.
——The king did not hit the target.
What a strange name.
For example, Xie Ci'an's pen name is Taohuake, and Gu Changsheng's pen name is Qingye Junzi.
Wang Buzhong, like her Liang Mancang, was just making up stories at random and was not worthy of being accepted by the upper class.
But the name doesn’t matter, as long as the story is good they’ll accept it.
So among the thick stack of stories, Wang Buzhong's "Strange Cases in the County Government" and another author's ghost story were taken away by Gu Changsheng.