Chapter 74
Seeing Fu Wenyu's attitude change, Liu Changmiao was immediately happy, and then said: "My eldest sister married to Jiangzhou five years ago and gave birth to a daughter, who is four years old this year..."
Fu Wenyu listened carefully, and asked a few questions that he was confused about from time to time. Then, as time went by, Liu Changmiao talked more and more, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
According to Liu Changmiao's narration, his eldest sister got married five years ago and is already 21 years old this year. His brother-in-law is a scholar named Lei in Jiangzhou. In the eyes of the world, the Lei family and the Liu family are considered to be well matched, because Lei Xiucai also has a father who passed the imperial examination. His father and Liu Juren are good friends, but unfortunately, the Juren died of illness seven or eight years ago.
In other words, Liu Changmiao's brother-in-law's family now only has a widowed mother, his brother-in-law, and his brother-in-law's sister who has not yet married. Although Liu Changmiao did not say it explicitly, from his narration, Fu Wenyu could also hear that his brother-in-law's family was also a scholarly family like the Liu family, but the Lei family's family background was not as good as the Liu family's.
So this was a familiar combination of a "poor scholar and a rich lady".
What made it even more familiar was that after Liu Changmiao's eldest sister got married, she gave birth to a daughter and did not get pregnant again, so Mrs. Lei cried and raged, and wanted to give Lei Xiucai her niece as a concubine on the grounds that "the Lei family cannot be without descendants".
Liu Changmiao snorted coldly, "How can my Liu family agree to such a thing? So last year my mother took me to go there in person and asked Mr. Lei to promise not to take a concubine within five years."
"This matter was originally over."
Liu Changmiao suddenly slammed the table heavily and said angrily: "But I don't know what medicine my eldest sister took wrong, she was actually possessed by a ghost. At the end of last year, she really let the niece of the old lady Lei's family become my brother-in-law's concubine. When we found out, we rushed over, and the woman was already pregnant for a month!"
Fu Wenyu: "..."
Liu Changmiao's sister, I'm afraid she really took [***].
Otherwise, how could such a good situation become like this?
Her family was powerful and willing to support her to suppress her mother-in-law and husband, but she herself did not hold on, wasting the five years that her family had fought for her.
Then Liu Changmiao said, "We were very angry. My mother almost wrote to my father and brother and asked them to come back and let the Lei family deal with the 'niece'."
"But my eldest sister actually protected her!"
"She also said something like 'the Lei family cannot be without descendants', 'she can't give birth, and we can't stop her from giving birth', and 'my brother-in-law is already 20 years old but still has no son, and others laugh at him'."
"She is simply crazy!"
Fu Wenyu agreed, "...she is indeed crazy."
"So you want me to write this 'niece' away in the storybook?"
If that's the case, let alone 500 taels, even if you give him 5,000 taels, he can't do it. Because Fu Wenyu has already verified that he doesn't have the superpower of the magic pen Ma Liang, and he won't make it come true.
But Liu Changmiao shook his head and said sadly: "I just want my elder sister to come back."
"When my elder sister was still at home, she was a very good person, filial to the elders, and loved me very much. But I went to Jiangzhou to see her several times recently, and found that she seemed to have changed into a different person."
"She kept talking about my brother-in-law all day long, busy inside and outside, and thinking about my brother-in-law for everything. What my mother said to me went in one ear and out the other, and she couldn't hear it in her mind. And this time my brother passed the imperial examination. Although she came, her heart was still in the Lei family. She actually wanted my brother to give up preparing for the next spring exam and teach my brother-in-law to take the provincial exam!"
"She also said that my brother-in-law was very knowledgeable. When he passed the provincial exam, he would take the imperial examination with my father and my elder brother. At that time, it would be a good story if the three of us passed the exam together."
Hearing this, Fu Wenyu was stunned.
Liu Changmiao's elder brother Liu Changyan passed the exam this time and will pass the exam next year if nothing unexpected happens. He actually wants the future Jinshi to put down his homework and teach a scholar to take the exam.
What does Liu's eldest sister think?
Fu Wenyu couldn't help asking, "Your brother didn't agree, did he?"
Liu Changmiao nodded affirmatively, "Of course my brother wouldn't agree to such a ridiculous idea."
"And not only did my brother not agree, but my father scolded my brother-in-law after he found out. He also wanted to keep my sister alone at home for a while to change her temper and let my brother-in-law go back first."
"But my sister actually refused and made a fuss about going back!"
Liu Changmiao was indignant, "She also said that the 'niece' was about to give birth, and that was my brother-in-law's son, and she was worried. And what's more terrifying is that I heard her privately tell my mother that she wanted to wait until the child was born. Register it under his own name. That is to make that bastard my sister's eldest son, the kind who will break the pot for her in the future. "
"But in that case, my sister will not be the eldest son in the future."
"That bastard will not only become our Liu family's legitimate grandson, but will also be able to share 70% of the family business in the future, but my sister is still very young and has a long life ahead of her."
"How can this be possible? !"
Hearing this, Fu Wenyu couldn't help but take a deep breath and asked directly: "Then what kind of storybook do you want me to write? But from what you said, it's all your sister's willingness."
Liu Changmiao was stunned.
Then he said seriously: "I want my eldest sister to come back and become what she used to be!"
Fu Wenyu asked a few more questions, and finally understood Liu Changmiao's intention.
In short, Liu Changmiao was not used to seeing his elder sister obsessed with love, and he couldn't accept it. He thought that she was crazy. Then he learned that Fu Wenyu's story had some metaphysics in it, so he thought of fighting poison with poison and metaphysics with metaphysics, so he hoped that Fu Wenyu could write a story to make his elder sister no longer obsessed with love.
This idea was absurd, but it was actually reasonable.
After understanding Liu Changmiao's idea, Fu Wenyu fell into deep thought.
Speaking of love, the first thing he thought of was the "digging wild vegetables" that was once very popular in his previous life. This story is about Wang Baochuan, the daughter of the prime minister, who broke off the father-daughter relationship with her father because she fell in love with the poor boy Xue Pinggui, gave up the glory and wealth, and married Xue Pinggui in a cold kiln.
But the days after marriage were not as good as she imagined.
Because soon after the marriage, Xue Pinggui went to war with the army, and later rescued the princess and became the princess's husband.
At this time, Wang Baochuan, who was unaware of the situation, was still waiting for her husband and living alone in the cold kiln for eighteen years. During these eighteen years, she had to rely on digging wild vegetables to fill her stomach due to hunger and cold. In daily conversations, she said, "I'll go dig some wild vegetables," "It's okay, I can go dig some wild vegetables," and "I've picked all the wild vegetables nearby," etc.
But the ending of this story is that Xue Pinggui was promoted all the way to become the emperor, and he also suspected that Wang Baochuan had betrayed him. In the end, although Wang Baochuan was officially named the queen, she died eighteen days later.
Wang Baochuan first "drank water to satisfy her love," and then waited hard for love, so that she was overly involved in love and lost her family, life, and herself.
Eighteen years corresponds to eighteen days, which is very ironic.
So after listening to Liu Changmiao's words, Fu Wenyu almost blurted out: Let her go dig wild vegetables.
If she doesn't dig wild vegetables for a few years, her love brain will not be cured.
Of course, he could only think about this "prescription" in his mind, and could not use it to convince Liu Changmiao.
So Fu Wenyu thought about it carefully, and analyzed from the perspective of writing a storybook whether he could write a storybook for his sister according to Liu Changmiao's story, so that Liu Changmiao would wake up after reading it. And it can also make her no longer give her heart and soul after she wakes up, no longer consume herself for the so-called "love", lose herself and become a puppet of love.
And from Liu Changmiao's story just now, her state is obviously wrong. Fu Wenyu is sure that if the current situation continues, she will definitely suffer a great loss.
After all, who can't wait for a few years, how can they be a good family?
So after thinking for a while, Fu Wenyu slowly said to Liu Changmiao's nervous expression: "I can try your request, but I'll be frank with you, my words will not come true."
"But maybe it can make your elder sister sober up a little."
Liu Changmiao's expression suddenly became disappointed, but he quickly adjusted himself, "Okay, Mr. Fu, you can try it. If you need anything, I will tell you everything I know."
So Fu Wenyu started writing after returning home.
Because there is no story of Wang Baochuan and Xue Pinggui in this world, Fu Wenyu simply borrowed their plot for this custom storybook, and then refined it.
First of all, the main characters such as 'Lady Lei', 'Scholar Lei', 'Miss Lei', 'Niece from my mother', and 'Sister Liu Changmiao' were added. 'Scholar Lei' is equivalent to 'Xue Pinggui', and 'Sister Liu Changmiao' is equivalent to 'Wang Baochuan'. In addition, a 'daughter of a high official' was added as a new character, and this one is equivalent to 'Princess'.
Then he started to write a lot of melodrama.
‘Love between husband and wife’ is a must, otherwise it will lead to love-brain; ‘mother-in-law eager to have grandchildren’ and ‘greedy sister-in-law’ are also necessary, otherwise there will be no good show; the ‘vain and greedy’ niece from her mother’s side must also have a big role, otherwise it will lead to the heroine’s deep quagmire and the final tragedy...
After the general plot was conceived, Fu Wenyu started writing.
In order to make the story more ‘realistic’ and to make Sister Liu Changmiao better put herself into the story after reading it, so as to achieve the purpose of ‘shock’, Fu Wenyu also went to the city specially and asked Liu Changmiao to invite a maid next to his sister to tell her about some things that happened in the Lei family, as well as some language habits and common words of the main characters of the Lei family.
It is necessary to make Sister Liu Changmiao ‘emotional’.
Ten days later, a storybook of 100,000 words was completed.
Fu Wenyu finally gave this custom-made story a simple and clear name that would make people curious at first glance: "I dig wild vegetables in my hometown, and my husband marries a noble lady in Beijing"
Also known as "The Story of Zhenniang".