Chapter 76
Bu Shiren passed the Jinshi examination. When the news came, everyone couldn't help but be happy.
You must know that Bu Shiren has been away for two years, and only occasionally writes letters back. His family misses him very much. This was especially true for Zhenniang, who was driven to live in a remote house and had to live in poverty and could only dig wild vegetables to feed herself, but mentally she kept thinking about what Bu Shiren said before leaving. He said that when he was in high school, he would come back to pick her up and let her be a happy wife.
This promise has always encouraged Zhenniang.
But what Zhenniang, who ate wild vegetables every day until her face turned green, didn't know was that Bu Shiren was not a good person, so he said things like 'I'll pick you up from high school', 'We'll have a good life in the future', 'You stay at home well'. "Serve my mother, so that I can take the imperial examination with peace of mind" and other words are all lies.
After Bu Shiren was in high school, he didn't think of Zhenniang at all. When the teacher asked him if he was married, he was deliberately vague and gave the other party wrong guidance.
While Zhenniang was digging wild vegetables, he was attending the Enrong Banquet.
When Zhenniang was cooking wild vegetables, he didn't say that he had a wife.
While Zhenniang was eating wild vegetables, he exchanged cups with others.
Zhenniang went out to dig wild vegetables again, and Bu Shiren only asked his mother for a royal decree.
When Zhenniang came back from digging wild vegetables, Bu Shiren went to a banquet and met a noble girl.
Zhenniang made a fire to cook wild vegetable soup, and the love poem written by Bu Shiren was spread.
Zhenniang served wild vegetables with beans and rice, and Bu Shiren said that they would be a pair for the rest of their lives.
Zhenniang said that wild vegetables are delicious, and Bu Shiren and your daughter met by chance again.
Liu Changmiao almost vomited when she saw in the storybook that at a banquet organized by a certain princess, Bu Shiren and the noble lady she met twice, the daughter of the master, guessed the same lantern riddle correctly.
He held the piece of paper tightly, his expression became a little distorted, and he had no desire to continue reading the storybook in his hand. So he quickly turned to the last page, and saw that Bu Shiren was deprived of his fame and died in poverty in a smelly ditch on the street. He was suddenly shocked.
"Have a good death!"
"He died so well!"
"Wait, let me see how Zhen Niang is doing..."
Feeling happy again, he quickly turned the page forward, and then he saw "Bu Shiren returns to his hometown"; "Bu Shiren didn't recognize the unkempt Zhenniang, and thought she was a servant of the family"; "Bu Shiren said that Zhenniang had nothing to do with her." "Zhen Niang divorced his wife on the grounds of his son and kicked her out"; "Zhen Niang came home begging, and her parents were shocked. The family went to Bu's house to argue, but they were beaten."
But this time, with the support of "Bu Shiren will eventually die in the smelly ditch", Liu Changmiao patiently looked down, and then saw "a heartbroken family being picked up by a carriage", "the long-lost natal family" The niece appears and scolds Zhen Niang, but also reveals the true identity of the Bu family mother and son, "Bu Shiren's dialogue with his mother" and other plots.
At this point in the story, the truth is revealed!
After reading the entire content, Liu Changmiao took a deep breath.
He solemnly closed the storybook in his hand, sorted out the papers that had been crumpled up in anger, put them together on the table, and then said sincerely: "Mr. Fu, I think after reading this storybook, my sister will I will definitely be more careful and not think about my brother-in-law all the time in the future.”
Because he was still frightened after reading it.
If the person who paid the money is satisfied, everyone will be happy.
However, Fu Wenyu remembered an idea that came to his mind when he was writing the storybook, so he asked: "I wonder what your plan is later. Are you going to show the storybook to your sister directly?"
Liu Changmiao immediately shook his head, "No, wouldn't my eldest sister know that I had someone write this? She would definitely scold me and not take the dialogue to heart. So please ask Mr. Fu You print it out like before, and then I buy another copy and my eldest sister sees it, so it makes sense.”
This is a good reason, but Fu Wenyu has a better way.
So he asked: "I wonder if your eldest sister likes to go to the theater? If she likes it and goes to the theater occasionally, I have a better way here."
Liu Changmiao nodded decisively.
"I like it. The female relatives in my family, such as my grandmother, mother, eldest sister, and sister-in-law, all like to go to the theater. When my brother passed the exam and held a banquet at home, he specially found a theater troupe to come to the house. And every year, my grandmother On her birthday, my parents would also arrange for a troupe to perform a performance of "Magu Presents Peach" for her. "
That would be easier to handle.
Fu Wenyu said: "The script is not as impressive as the opera. Since your eldest sister likes to go to the theater, it is better to let the theater troupe come up with this script."
"You can't force your eldest sister to read a playbook, but your grandmother, your father and your mother can force your eldest sister to watch a play. Even if she closes her eyes, she can still hear and feel it."
"Wouldn't the effect be better this way?"
Liu Changmiao's eyes lit up, "Yes!"
"When I went to the theater with my mother and the others, I really wanted to run away, but I didn't dare. But when the play started singing, I couldn't escape even if I closed my eyes."
"If it's a drama, then my eldest sister will have to watch it."
"That makes sense!"
Without further ado, the two of them split up.
Liu Changmiao went home and tried to find a way to get his eldest sister to stay at home for a longer period of time. It would be best to wait for the play to be released. Fu Wenyu went to arrange the printing of the book and find a theater troupe willing to stage the play.
Because Liu Changmiao had already paid 500 taels of silver, Fu Wenyu did not charge the troupe any extra fees. He only had one request, which was to do it as quickly as possible. Specifically, they wanted to increase the dialogue and reduce some singing segments. In short, no matter what method they used, they must make the play take shape as quickly as possible.
His request was an outsider's guidance to the insiders, so several large troupes refused. Only one troupe on the verge of bankruptcy was willing to give it a try, and Fu Wenyu also found an acquaintance here.
Ru Niang, who would go to the teahouse to perform in her spare time, wiped her tears.
"Mr. Fu, your book is really well written."
"Don't worry, I will let my father arrange it quickly."
Ru Niang's father, the owner of the troupe, blew his beard and glared, "You are the one who talks too much. Hurry up and practice Zhen Niang's lyrics. Since Mr. Fu thinks highly of our Changxi Troupe, we can't let down the chain."
After leaving Changxi Troupe, Fu Wenyu came to Kaiyuan Bookstore again.
He planned to give the storybook "The Story of Zhenniang" to Zhang, asking him to help deliver it to Liuzhou Tabloid. Since the abducted Zhao Danniu was found, several people came to ask him to help write "missing person notices". Some of them came from other counties and other prefectures.
Fu Wenyu accepted all of them.
But in this way, he spent most of the money he had saved in Liuzhou Tabloid since he had no storybooks to serialize recently. If there is still no income in another month, these "missing person notices" will be suspended.
Now that he has written a new storybook, he plans to send it.
If other stories are finished recently, this one can just be continued. It's not that he is too confident and thinks that the storybooks he wrote are the best in the world and that other storybooks have to give way to it. Instead, he has always been paying attention to Liuzhou Tabloid. He has read all the seven storybooks being serialized there and thinks that if this "The Story of Zhenniang" doesn't get the first place, it won't fall out of the top five, so as long as there is a vacancy, it will be selected. It's just a matter of time.
Yes, he plans to use a big account to publish.
Up to now, Fu Wenyu has a big account, which is "Two Wen for a Steamed Bun".
However, because this name is too down-to-earth, and he was exposed relatively early, when Tang Yuanwai found his biological son, so now most people know that the real name of "Two Wen for a Steamed Bun" is "Fu Wenyu", and the pen name that is too down-to-earth has been forgotten. The evidence is that the last time when Zhang Zhang arranged for people to print "The Treasure Map of Rebirth", he added the name "Fu Wenyu" on it.
In addition to the big account, he also has two small accounts.
One was used during the period of writing "Legend of the Divine Eyes". He wrote "Green Tea Cousin" for "Brother You". The nickname was "Yin Yang Scholar". He has not written any more recently.
The other one was used before writing "Rebirth of the Treasure Map". It was specifically used to write "Collection of Scams". The name was taken from the book "Spring and Autumn Gongyang Zhuan" that he was reading at the time, and it was called "Mr. Gongyang".
Now, in the collection of short stories "Collection of Scams", in addition to the first three stories, "Night Pearl", "Fairy Trap" and "Hongmen Inn", two more stories have been added, namely "Passing Inferior Quality" and "Bumping into Porcelain".
"Passing Inferior Quality" is just as the name suggests, Zhang Sanlang did not give up and went out to do business again. As a result, he met a profiteer who took advantage of his inattention when delivering goods and replaced the goods with inferior quality and quickly fled. So Zhang Sanlang, who lost all his money, went home begging again.
As for "Porcelain Bumping", it is about a day when Zhang Sanlang was walking on the road. A man holding a porcelain vase saw that he was well dressed, so he bumped into him and broke the vase. Then he cried and screamed for compensation, and extorted thirty taels of silver from Zhang Sanlang for the porcelain vase that was less than a hundred coins.
Because the three pen names exist independently, the big one has the highest manuscript fee, and Fu Wenyu wants to use all the manuscript fees for the story "Digging Wild Vegetables" on the "Missing Person Notice", so he can only ask Zhang Zhang for help.
Zhang Zhang was very happy to see that he had written another article.
"Wenyu, it would be nice if everyone was as diligent as you."
"Mr. Sanliu has returned from the capital. Last time I went to see him and told him that you hadn't written a new story for a long time, but he actually used the excuse of 'no time' to evade me."
"It's true that 'the world is going downhill and people's hearts are not the same as before'."
After joking, he lowered his head and opened Fu Wenyu's new storybook to read it. After reading for a while, he looked up and asked in confusion: "Why do you write such a storybook?"
"Poor scholars and rich ladies, it seems that Sun Xiucai likes it."
Fu Wenyu smiled but said nothing, "Uncle Zhang, you will know when you read on." The "Biography of Zhenniang" he wrote is still very different from Sun Xiucai's "East Chamber" and "The Story of the Green Hairpin" and other stories.
Sure enough, after reading it, Zhang's eyes lit up, "Good!"
"This Bu Shiren is really not a human being. He can do such a thing. He deserves to be stripped of his fame. Not only will he be poor and childless all his life, but he will also be drowned in a stinking ditch when he is old."
"In the end, even his body was eaten by wild dogs, and he died without a burial place."
"Good death!"