Chapter 52: Is He Willing?
The road to Shu is far away, and the letter from Kaifeng is fast, and it will take a long time to arrive, and this letter of reminder will naturally not arrive for a while.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Su Lu followed the Su Shi brothers to Chengdu Mansion with their burdens.
This Mid-Autumn Festival, Su Zhe had a not very good time, first Su Shi and Wang Fu sprinkled dog food, and then the family arranged for Su Zhe to look at each other, saying that if there is nothing to do next year, the marriage will be settled, and it is good to solve lifelong events before going to Beijing to take the exam, lest he really win the Jinshi and be arrested.
You must know that it is very popular nowadays to "catch a son-in-law under the list", that is, as soon as the Jinshi list is posted, many wealthy families will send strong families to actively snatch people home!
Generally speaking, high-ranking officials and nobles will not do this kind of thing, and most of the people who will do this kind of thing are wealthy businessmen who can't get out of the Jinshi family, and they urgently need connections in the officialdom to grow with their officials and businessmen, and combine their swords! In order to get a son-in-law of a jinshi, many wealthy businessmen will even buy a son-in-law at a high price.
Su Xun and Cheng are quite conservative in their concept of marriage, so they want to find a wife who knows the bottom of their son, and they are not willing to rely on their son's marriage to have a relationship with anyone.
Rather than marrying a woman who doesn't know the roots for the sake of being rich and noble, they still hope that their son will have a virtuous helper who can take care of the affairs of the back house for him.
Cheng's choice for Su Zhe is the daughter of the Shi family, two years younger than Su Zhe, only thirteen years old this year, both sides are very satisfied, and agreed to marry before the autumn of next year, but the auspicious day has to be picked again.
Su Lu felt very uncomfortable when he saw it, why didn't his father take the time to arrange it for him? He has worked so hard, he has been working hard in Chengdu for more than two months!
Su Zhe is four years younger than Su Shi, only fifteen years old this year, and he was a little ashamed to mention marriage, but when he saw Su Zhe looking at him with envy, he couldn't help but say: "How old are you kid, and you're thinking about marriage?" ”
"Alas, you can settle down first, and then get married in ten or eight years." Su Lu sighed, "You know, a young man like me who is as popular as me will definitely be very sought-after in the future, and then there will be all kinds of little ladies to corrupt me and shake me, what if I am not strong enough and make the mistakes that all men in the world will make?" ”
Su Shi knocked on his head: "Read more books, think less about the west." Although Su Shi didn't know what "the mistakes that men in the world make" were, he could guess a rough idea in combination with the context, and couldn't help but knock Su Ruan, "If you really do something stupid, your future father-in-law will definitely break your legs, and we won't be able to save you then." ”
In these years, husbands and wives support reconciliation and divorce, support remarriage and remarriage, but do not support polygamy, you can only have one wife in each period, and only the previous wife is no longer there to continue.
If you have a wife who is marrying Ming Media and go to harm the little lady who is in the right household, you will definitely have your leg broken, and it will be interrupted twice, once by your wife's father and brother, and once by the father and brother of the little lady.
The concubine is more casual, but she also has to respect his wife's opinion.
Su Shi felt that his cousin was still young and couldn't let him grow crooked.
No one's daughter fell from the sky, since she chose the right person to marry, she had to be worthy of the wife who married back, otherwise it would not be good if the two families could not marry and make enemies!
Su Lu listened to Su Shi's earnest education, and could only nod obediently.
The three brothers returned to Chengdu Mansion again, and before they had time to rest, people came to see one after another, and all of them wanted to see Su Lu.
The first to find it was Li Shao.
Li Shao has lost a lot of weight recently.
Reading makes people haggard, and the clothes and belts are gradually widened, and the thief regrets it!
Li Shao saw Su Lu and complained with a bitter face: "I only knew that the master's ring ruler was given by you, how can you be so ruthless?" Knowing that I was suffering in it, you gave them the stuff to beat us! Look at how beaten I am, I've saved up until the holidays to come out to see you! ”
Su Lu didn't expect Fan Baifu to sell themselves.
But it is impossible to admit it, how could he harm his good brother? There is no way, he is the first righteous man in the Great Song Dynasty!
Su Yiyi sternly questioned Li Shao in turn: "I just gave them a ruler, who knew that they would use it to beat people?" I remember that there was a sentence in Mencius to the effect that 'someone killed someone with a knife, but he said with a pride that he did not do it, but did it with a knife.'" Instead of complaining that the master who beat you was too harsh on you, but blaming me for giving them rulers, what is the difference between blaming the knife for killing someone? Do you really consider me a friend? ”
Li Shao was very ashamed when he heard it.
It seems that this is the right thing.
Su Lu was very satisfied, and it was in vain that he was familiar with the texts of the nine-year compulsory education education.
When he was forced to memorize the text, he thought it was useless, but now he realizes that as long as he learns something, there is always a chance to come in handy!
The more you learn, the more you can fool people!
Su Lu easily coaxed Li Shao away, and Mr. Jiang came over again and brought his newly written drama text.
Since "The Iron Mask General Pingman" became popular, the hard-working and brave Chengdu people began to give full play to their ingenuity and began to innovate in theme and content.
It's not easy.
Before returning to Meishan, Su Lu entrusted Mr. Jiang to write a new play for him, the original materials were from his father and he copied from Zhang Fangping, and the theoretical guide book "See Weilu" was also included.
Because there are too many original materials this time, Mr. Jiang couldn't finish writing it in one day, and he didn't sleep well in the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, and he was thinking about how to simplify these materials every day, not only to highlight the great image of the protagonist, but also to continue the interest of "The Legend of the Iron Mask General" to ensure that it can meet the preferences of the masses.
It is not difficult to write a model play, but it is a popular model play that is difficult to write.
If you forcibly output your worldview, values, and outlook on life in the play, the audience may scold you for "bad writing" and turn around and leave. The real brainwashing must be moisturizing things silently, and it must not be stiff or rigid, and the audience is not stupid!
Through repeated study of various materials, Mr. Jiang wrote the book behind closed doors on such an important reunion day as the Mid-Autumn Festival, and finally wrote the first play before Su Lu returned.
This play is called "The Criminal Officer of the Great Song Dynasty".
Of course, this has little to do with the later "Da Song Ti Criminal Officer", which mainly talks about the cases encountered by Su Lu and his father after he took office.
Su Lu didn't plan to go directly to his father's name, but the case was there, and everyone who knew it understood it, unless he was blind.
When he went back to Lizhou to play with his father, he took a troupe to tour the past, and it was advertised that it was "the first troupe in Chengdu Prefecture", and the case of Lizhou Road was exported to domestic sales, and the people of Lizhou Road must have thought that his father was very awesome! The person in charge of the official assessment came back, and when he inspected the people's feelings, everyone praised his father for being good, and he was worried that his father had no political achievements?
After reading the play, Su Lu felt that it was not a big problem.
Criminal investigation dramas have had many audiences since ancient times, either thriller murders or grievances and hatreds, what mother-in-law and daughter-in-law disputes, pickpocketing-ash stealing-love, love killing and vendetta are all covered, which can be both thrilling and tear-jerking, who wouldn't like to watch it?
With a little operation, this new drama will definitely be popular!
Su Lu glanced at Mr. Jiang, who had picked himself up decently, thought about it, and said with a smile: "Mr. Jiang, I'll take you to meet someone, and ask his opinion for the new drama to see if there is anything to avoid." ”
Mr. Jiang felt that Su Lu doubted his literary talent, but doubted his professional quality. He said firmly: "There will definitely be nothing that should not be written, I have been talking about books for so long, and there has never been an accident!" There are many other storytellers who are full of nonsense, but many of them have been taken to the yamen for questioning! ”
Su Yan smiled: "Asking the other party to palm your eyes is secondary, I mainly want to take you to meet Master Fan." You should have heard that in the past few years, Fan Fuzi has taught several students, and all of them have been admitted to the Jinshi. Su Lu looked at Mr. Jiang, his expression was a little more rare serious, "I see that you are only in your early forties, and you can still be an official for more than ten or twenty years after the entrance examination." My third uncle is still preparing to take the exam next year at this age, I think you shouldn't give up too early, why don't you go and ask Fan Fuzi. ”
Mr. Jiang knew all about the celebrities in Shuzhong, and when he heard it, he knew that the "Fan Fuzi" mentioned by Su Lu was Fan Baifu. He was born in a peasant family, and he didn't have the opportunity to get acquainted with the people of the Huayang Fan family, and later went to the teahouse to tell stories, which was equivalent to completely drawing a line with the readers next to him.
But is he willing?
Is he really willing to live like this for the rest of his life?