In Kaifeng, those who can engage in the publishing industry are not simple people, at least in the literary world, they have a wide range of contacts.

The steward who was in charge of reading the manuscript got a "Fan Jinzhongju", and was going to go back and give King Kong the result, but he didn't expect the owner to come over, and he fell in love with this manuscript all of a sudden, and gave a lot of money on the spot!

The owner of the bookstore happens to be surnamed Fan, and he is the son of the Huayang Fan family. He read this "Fan Jinzhongju", and only felt that the pen was spicy and the irony was appropriate, which was really a rare masterpiece.

Although the secular conditions depicted in it are not quite the same as today, Fan Dongjia automatically made up the author's intention: this kind of satirical work, completely copying the truth, I am afraid that it will cause criticism, the article writes a non-existent "Ming Dynasty", but what is expressed is the various obscurities of this Ming Dynasty, the contrast is clear, the intention is profound, it is really wonderful!

With such a masterpiece, wouldn't it be a waste if it wasn't printed in a book?

Fan Dongjia immediately asked someone to copy a copy, took it to typesetting and proofreading to prepare the engraving, and went out with the original manuscript himself.

He went to find his uncle Fan Town.

His clan uncle is good friends with Ouyang Xiu and others, and he can be regarded as a talkative figure in the court, if Fan Zhen can help say hello, it will naturally be much easier to pass the trial, and the Guozijian will let it go as soon as he closes his eyes and raises his hand!

Fan Dongjia went to visit with the manuscript, but Fan Zhen had not yet gone to the office, so he only sent someone back with a message to say that the official family was leaving food.

It wasn't until the sunset that Fan Dongjia saw Fan Zhen who had returned.

When Fan Zhen saw his cousin coming, he was slightly surprised in his heart, and kindly asked him to sit down and talk.

Fan Dongjia didn't talk nonsense, directly explained his intentions, and presented the original manuscript to Fan Zhen to see.

The Fan family attaches great importance to the upbringing of the children in the family, and even Fan Dongjia, who is a businessman, has also read a lot of books, and Fan Zhen trusts his ability to taste.

Listening to the rare high praise given by his nephew to "Fan Jinzhongju", Fan Zhen suddenly became interested and took the manuscript and read it.

In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was very popular "Xingjuan", that is, the candidates took their proud works and presented them to the dignitaries, if the nobles liked it very much, they would be crazy to reward, oh no, crazy appreciation, for the candidates to enter the road to the top of the push.

Many masterpieces of Tang poetry were born in this situation, and in the later period, some people began to write legendary scripts with ingenuity, hoping to leave a deeper impression on the nobles through this genre that can carry a complete story!

Some people even directly block the road to give gifts and money in order to let dignitaries and nobles appreciate their faces, which is equivalent to posting money and begging people to read books!

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, many drastic reforms have been carried out in the imperial examinations, and the practice of carrying out scrolls, which is easy to promote unhealthy tendencies, has been banned. Nowadays, many people are not interested in legendary stories, and most of them feel that they are not on the table.

Fan Zhen is different, he has repaired history books with Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi.

In order to make the history books more detailed, he turned over all kinds of documents handed down from the Tang Dynasty, and he is no stranger to the genre of legendary scripts.

Fan Zhen finished reading "Fan Jinzhongju" in one go, and he felt similar to his cousin.

There are too many "Fan Jin" in this world, and there are too many people in the article who are condescending and respectful.

For example, the word "former and posterior" comes from what Su Qin said to his sister-in-law after his career, "Sister-in-law is humble before and after".

Another example is the Tang Dynasty has an allusion to the "blue sarong", saying that a prime minister was very poor when he was young, living in the temple, the monks disliked him for eating too much, deliberately waited for the meal before ringing the bell, the prime minister rushed to eat when he found that there was nothing, very angry, on the spot on the wall to write a poem, angry and left; Later, the prime minister became famous, revisited the old place, and found that the poem that mocked the monk was surrounded by people with a blue sarong, and it was cherished!

Xiaoxiao's "Fan Jin Zhongju" is written about secular human feelings and the darkness of the world.

Just imagine, even a single person can lead to a 180-degree change in the attitude of the Yue family and the township towards Fan Jin, and there are people who send fields and houses, and there are many twists and turns hidden in the officialdom of this "Ming Dynasty"!

Although this situation has not happened in the Great Song Dynasty, there is a faint trend like this, and this kind of drama is exaggerated to reflect the satirical effect!

It's just that the words used in it are too vulgar, and the whole article is in the vernacular, although it reads very smoothly, it lacks a little charm.

Fan Zhen pondered for a moment and said to his cousin, "You go and prepare, and this manuscript will be left with me first." ”

The second day happened to be the day of rest, and Fan Zhen went to Ouyang Xiu to talk to him with the manuscript.

Ouyang Xiu has always loved books, according to his summary, people have to race against time to read, not only have to read usually, but also have to make good use of the three fragments of time: immediately, on the toilet, on the pillow!

To put it simply, it is a waste of time on the road for so long without reading some books; It's a waste of going to the toilet for so long not to read some books; Lying down until you fall asleep for so long, it's a waste not to read some books!

Hearing that Fan Zhen brought a good article, Ouyang Xiu's spirits perked up, and he didn't care about beckoning Fan Zhen to have tea, so he flipped through the stack of manuscripts.

What catches the eye is a slightly childish hand.

Ouyang Xiu paused.

This word is a little familiar.

He glanced at the signature, Wu Jingzi, I hadn't heard of it, but this word was so ugly that he was sure he had seen it!

Seeing that Ouyang Xiu didn't scroll down, Fan Zhen couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" ”

Ouyang Xiu said: "I should have seen this word recently. He looked at a bunch of exam papers and a bunch of official documents during this time, and he didn't remember where he had seen it for a while.

Ouyang Xiu carefully observed the words on the paper, these words were boneless and godless, and he could see that the writer's wrist did not have any strength, and he was not serious about learning words. A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he turned his head and asked Fan Zhen: "Do you remember that a few days ago, in front of the emperor, Han Zihua once submitted a manuscript?" ”

Zihua is Han Jiang's character.

As soon as Ouyang Xiu mentioned this, Fan Zhen remembered. He picked up the page at the beginning of the manuscript and looked at it carefully, and also matched the bad words on the number.

After all, at their level, it is generally difficult for the articles of people who write badly to appear in front of them again.

Ouyang Xiu didn't say much, and then finished reading "Fan Jinzhongju" before he said: "Among them, people are sophisticated, not half a child can write it, this writing is a bit like the popular "Iron Mask General Pingban Ji" in Shuzhong, I heard Uncle Mei say that the scholar surnamed Jiang who wrote "The Iron Mask General Pingman" has a deep relationship with the Su family, and this "Fan Jinzhongju" may be his handwriting. ”

Fan Zhen thought so and nodded yes.

As for why the scholar surnamed Jiang asked Su Lu to copy it, and pretended to submit it in the name of "Wu Jingzi", Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhen both understood-

Naturally, I am afraid that the sarcasm is too spicy and will have a bad impact on myself!

Ouyang Xiu said with a smile: "Then let 'Wu Jingzi' write this "Fan Jinzhongju". ”

Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhen agreed, so he wrote a text message and asked people to send it to Guozijian, asking Guozijian to review it.

The two sat down and ate two teas, during which they talked about the little prodigy of the Su family, and they both felt that this son had to be spurred well. As soon as they discussed, they decided to each send a few copies of the notebook to Su Lu, and beat this Su family kid who had an empty stomach full of ideas but refused to study hard at all.

On this day, hundreds of officials rested, and Su Lu also had free time, lying comfortably on the recliner to enjoy the warm spring sun, and occasionally salted fish turned over, also to pick up tons and tons of tea next to him.

When Su Jian came back from outside, he saw a salted fish lying in the courtyard, still born by himself, and suddenly had an urge to find a ring ruler.

Su Jian said: "On a good day, you kid can't do something serious?" ”

This kid came to Kaifeng and saw that the carpenter in Kaifeng was good, so he ran to ask someone to make him a new chair. This chair can make people half-lie on it, not to mention, but also shake it gently, not to mention how leisurely and comfortable it is, Su Jian wanted to lie down several times to try to be comfortable and embarrassed, so he could only watch his son lie down under the osmanthus tree every day after school.

The more I watched, the more I wanted to beat him.

Su Lu lay on the chair and swayed gently, and his mouth was full of words: "I work hard to go to school every day, don't you allow me to take a break during the holidays!" ”

Just when a major rift was about to appear in their father-son relationship, someone came in and said that Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhen had sent someone to send something to Su Zhen.

Su Jian thought he had heard it wrong.

He couldn't help but ask: "For you Xiaolangjun?" ”

The servant nodded yes.

Su Lu also sat up and said strangely: "How can they send me something?" He was overjoyed in his heart, and his face couldn't help but bring a little pride, "Could it be that they saw that I was strange and decided to take me as an apprentice!" ”

Su Jian looked at him, and there was obviously a sentence written in his eyes: Don't you force yourself?