The tea should not be full, seven points of tea and eight points of wine, this is the way of hospitality.

Jin Yong picked up the teacup, raised his hand and made a gesture of "please tea" very elegantly, and then took a sip gently, looking elegant and elegant, quite a master's style.

At least Chen Xiaotang and Liu Dehua feel that they can't drink this kind of demeanor and taste, after all, a person's cultivation cannot be cultivated overnight, and the so-called "connotation" is "an inner thousand-layer text, covering thousands of books." ”

After a tea tour, Jin Yong gently put down the teacup, looked at Chen Xiaotang and said, "Mr. Chen, do you believe that people can be reincarnated?"

Chen Xiaotang was stunned for a moment and said, "How do you say this?" ”

Jin Yong smiled and said: "It's not your novel "Looking for Qin", I think it has this kind of charm at the beginning!" ”

Only then did Chen Xiaotang understand that the master Jin Yong treated the "crossing" element as "reincarnation ~ return". It's no wonder that in order to be lazy, Chen Xiaotang wrote the beginning of the book in the style of a rebirth novel in a previous life, and directly crossed the protagonist "Xiang Shaolong" to the Warring States, instead of doing an experimental guinea pig, riding a time machine to travel, the purpose is very simple, it is easy to make the beginning of the book enter the "high ~ tide" in advance to attract the attention of readers. But I didn't expect Master Jin Yong to care so much.

"Oh, I see what you mean, it's just that I haven't thought about it that much—" Chen Xiaotang explained.

Jin Yong's face showed a hint of strangeness, but he immediately said calmly: "That's right, you are still very young, young people have always been self-centered, dare to act, few people believe in God or Buddha, people are different when they are old, a little older, you will be skeptical, and when you reach my age, you will believe everything." ”

Chen Xiaotang then remembered that Jin Yong seems to believe in Buddhism very much, which can be reflected in his classic novel "Dragon Babu", and "reincarnation ~ return" is the truth expounded in Buddhist teachings.

Chen Xiaotang understood that the "crossing" element he accidentally wrote was mistaken by Jin Yong for the concept of "reincarnation ~ return" in Buddhism, and he probably regarded himself as a devout Buddhist.

"You may think it's a bit strange for me to ask this question, just because I can see from the book you wrote about the Qin Dynasty that you seem to be very interested in Buddhism."

And so it was.

Chen Xiaotang said in his heart.

What to do on your own? Do you get off the donkey down the slope, or do you pass it directly and say that you are a novice in Buddhism?!

After thinking for a while, Chen Xiaotang said with a cheeky face: "Buddhism is broad and profound, and my qualifications are dull, but I only dabble in it slightly, and I don't dare to say anything about research or not......

"Hehe, it's a good thing for young people to be modest and cautious!" Jin Yong seems to conclude that this Chen Xiaotang is "a bit of material", and he does not belong to those straw bag literati, nor does he belong to those artists who have not graduated from elementary school.

"But I don't know what Xiaotang said about the "Diamond Sutra": 'Everything has a law, like a dream bubble, like dew and electricity, as it is'. What's in the insight? Jin Yong stared at Chen Xiaotang with wise eyes, which can be said to be a test for Chen Xiaotang, because no matter how Jin Yong is, he can't imagine that a person can write such a "strange" novel.

Jin Yong has written novels for half his life, and has run newspapers for half his life, and he deeply knows what kind of connotation and cultural heritage is needed to write such a novel, if Chen Xiaotang can't even explain the "essence" revealed from his own novel at this moment, then there is only one possibility, this novel was not written by him.

Of course, Jin Yong didn't know that Chen Xiaotang's so-called "crossing" element had been flooded in his previous life, but when he arrived here, he became the first "person who dared to eat crabs", and he had the momentum of founding a sect.

Chen Xiaotang was very worried in his heart, and said in his heart, your uncle! Ask me what "Diamond Sutra" is, I have read "Su ~ Women's Sutra"!

In Chen Xiaotang's poor knowledge of Buddhism, the only thing he can do is "color is emptiness, emptiness is color".

Seeing Jin Yong looking at him with blazing eyes, Chen Xiaotang couldn't help coughing, and Liu Dehua next to him also felt that the atmosphere seemed to be a little bad.

Liu Dehua still believes in Chen Xiaotang very much, although this friend seems to be "all-rounder" and "omnipotent", and seems to be climbing too fast in the circle, but Liu Dehua is not the kind of person who is good at jealousy, but it stimulates his fighting spirit with Yi. So the situation Chen Xiaotang is facing at this moment makes him involuntarily nervous, and it seems that it is not Chen Xiaotang who is being tested, but himself.

Chen Xiaotang pondered for a moment and said slowly: "It is said that there is a monk who went down the mountain to return to the world because he couldn't bear the loneliness of the Buddhist family......

Jin Yong and Liu Dehua were both stunned, but they didn't expect Chen Xiaotang to start telling stories.

Chen Xiaotang pretended to be very tall and deep on the surface, but he was screaming in his heart, don't show your stuff, this is a story I heard from others, and I don't know if it makes sense. Thinking of this, he spoke slowly and continued: "But in less than a month, this monk went up the mountain again because he couldn't bear the tongue of the world. In less than a month, I went again because I couldn't bear loneliness. After doing this three times, the old monk said to him, you don't have to believe in Buddhism, take off your robe; You don't have to be a layman seriously, just set up a place in the pavilion between the temple and the earth, how about selling the earth? So this layman asked for a little daughter-in-law, set up a shop, and began to run according to the old monk's words......"

"I never thought that this tea shop had a very good business, and it didn't take long for this person to buy a property and become a wealthy man. With money, there are many things that can be done, this person married a wife and concubine, bought land, and later paid money to donate to officials, he is powerful and rich, and it can be said that his life is extremely perfect. ”

"Who knows that happiness and sorrow make for this, and later this person was removed from his official position for corruption and bribery, and all his family property was confiscated; His concubine also ran away with someone, his children were not filial, no one wanted to support him, he was old, he was sick, he couldn't even walk, he could only crawl to the temple where he used to be a monk, in front of the temple, he kowtowed to the Buddha and said, 'Why do you want to do this to me?!' After screaming, he found himself lying on the table in the tea shop, and everything just now was a dream. The old monk was looking at him with a smile......"

Chen Xiaotang said this, and stopped abruptly.

Jin Yong seemed to be deep in thought.

Liu Dehua couldn't wait: "What happened later, what happened later?" ”

Chen Xiaotang spread his hands: "There is no ...... later"

"How is it possible, this story has no beginning and no end." Liu Dehua muttered.

Looking at Jin Yong next to him, after listening to Chen Xiaotang's meaningful "little story", he pondered for a while, and then couldn't help but exclaim: "Everything has a law, like a dream bubble, birth, old age, sickness and death, glory and wealth, the difference between one thought!" I believe it, you are really different, and it is natural that you can write a novel like "Xun Qin"...... Hey, Xiaotang is so talented, our so-called Xiangjiang talents are old! There was a sigh in the tone.

"Mr. Cha, don't say that, I just like to think about it, and occasionally I like to think about why some people are alive, why people are dying, whether they are happy to live or painful to die, so I can't help but accumulate a lot of knowledge, and sometimes the fire stirred up in my heart even surprises me." Chen Xiaotang bragged shamelessly.

"Hahaha, there are very few young people as knowledgeable as you." Jin Yong smiled slightly, and then said: "You remind me of my eldest son Cha Chuanxia, he used to like to think about such questions as much as you, and I praised him for having Huigen at the time, but who knew that he would ...... later" Then his face was full of indescribable desolation and helplessness.

Jin Yong's eldest son Cha Chuanxia?

Chen Xiaotang immediately had such information in his mind:

Jin Yong's eldest son, Cha Chuanxia, hanged himself at the age of nineteen. This is the eternal pain in Kim Yong's heart.

It is said that Jin Yong has a deep affection for his eldest son and took him to see his mother Zhu Mei. On the contrary, the relationship between mother and son is not very good. This son wrote an article when he was eleven or twelve years old, saying that life is very hard, not interesting, and that he is born with Buddhist thoughts. Some people say that the child should be stopped from thinking like this, but Jin Yong feels that his son is right, life is just as he thinks, and he even praised his son's profound and precocious wisdom, but he didn't want his son to die because of this thought. At that time, Cha Chuanxia was in his first year of college in New York, USA, and had not yet chosen a subject. He had a girlfriend in San Francisco, and they had a few arguments on the phone, and the nineteen-year-old freshman boy didn't want to live anymore and chose to hang himself on impulse.

When he received the news of his son's death, Kim Yong was still writing editorials. Despite his extreme shock and sadness, he persisted in finishing the editorial. Every day, 100,000 readers are waiting to read his articles, and they can't stop writing because of the great changes.

Later, in the afterword of the revised version of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", Jin Yong wrote that he used to write about Zhang Sanfeng's grief when he saw his apprentice Zhang Cuishan kill himself, and Xie Xun's sadness when he heard the death of his righteous son Zhang Wuji, all of which were too superficial, and real life was not like that. "Because I didn't understand it then."

Chen Xiaotang hurriedly came back to his senses when he thought of this, and said slowly: "To tell the truth, Mr. Cha, I was very afraid of death when I was a child. Because I think that only the people who came before will die, and only the people in the history books will die. Many people don't understand, what is the use of history? History is there to tell you: those people died! I've never seen a history book that mentions the name Chen Xiaotang, how could I die? The most important thing is that even death is not a terrible thing! And when I was a child, Mrs. Chen next door to me always scolded her husband, so many people died, you still don't die? Then Chen Sheng came back after he went, and Mrs. Chen would say again, come back from death, don't die for a while? So I've always thought that to die is to go to the streets, and not to go far away. Because Chen Sheng came back quickly every time. ”

Hearing Chen Xiaotang say so humorously, Jin Yong couldn't help but smile, as if he understood the meaning of what he said.

Chen Xiaotang breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "So no matter what, I hope that Mr. Cha can be happy and happy like this, because I believe that even Ling Gongzi is in the spirit of the sky, I don't want your old man to be depressed because of him." ”

As soon as Jin Yong heard such comfort, he smiled and said: "It's me who ruined the atmosphere, let's get to the point, this time I called you, in addition to agreeing to you to shoot "Zhongshentong Wang Chongyang", the most important thing is to urge you to update that novel quickly, I have received many letters from readers here, all asking you to speed up the update, saying that if you don't do it, you will set fire to the building of our "Ming Pao" ......"

Jin Yong said this with a smile, and it is conceivable that he understands the reaction of these book lovers. In fact, Jin Yong was born as a bookwriter, and when he updated "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", he was also blocked at the door of his house to urge the draft, so it can be said that he has a similar experience with Chen Xiaotang.

Chen Xiaotang scratched his head and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Cha, to tell you the truth, it's not that I don't want to update the novel, it's really because I don't have time!" ”

"You calculate, I shoot for more than ten hours every day, and sometimes I have to start work for three days in a row, I don't have to sleep at night, and I have to stay up late to catch up with the draft, which is definitely a very tiring job."

"I understand, Xiaotang, but as an author, everything has to be done with the reader first...... Kim Yong reminded.

Chen Xiaotang smiled, "It is precisely because of this consideration that I decided to transfer "Xun Qin Ji" to your newspaper......

"Ah, what did you say?" Jin Yong was stunned.

"No, Ah Tang, aren't you going to write it?" Liu Dehua was surprised.

"I want to too, but don't I have time?" Chen Xiaotang spread his hands and said, "So I want to transfer the copyright of this book and let people under your newspapers and magazines come to write it on my behalf——"

Chen Xiaotang put forward this idea, Jin Yong had considered it before - there was no way, the update speed of this girl was too fast, and a master with a high level of cultivation like Jin Yong couldn't help but nag.

In Jin Yong's opinion, as long as Chen Xiaotang is willing to transfer the copyright of this book, he can naturally find someone to write the following story content on his behalf, and even the person he finds can write better than his. After all, Chen Xiaotang is only a part-time creation, which is different from the "hard work" of the people he found.

But Jin Yong is a master, he can't say to Chen Xiaotang directly: "Hey, little guy, don't get in the way of money, transfer the copyright of the novel to me!" ”

He has to be very subtle and tentative, very tactfully revealing his thoughts, even if it is a very stinky fart, he must be tactful and melodious, subtle and appropriate.

Unexpectedly, Chen Xiaotang would take the initiative to bring it up!

So, isn't it weird?!

(To be continued)