Chapter 32: The Devil (II)

Staying early the next morning, Chen Kai ran to Li Yu's house again. This was agreed yesterday, because Chen Kai still had to ask Li Yu for advice on some literary matters, and he was not going to live in Hangzhou permanently, so it was inevitable that he would visit frequently.

Li Yu's family was happy with this move, because Chen Kai would not come empty-handed. It's just that Li Yu, every time he intersects with Chen Kai, the more he feels that his living standard is low at this stage, and this mentality is getting more and more serious, so serious that after a few days of hard work, he is already a little intolerable.

A few days later, near the end of the month, Chen Kai visited again after a day. After chatting about poetry for a while, Chen Kai mentioned that he listened to the song "Peony Pavilion" yesterday, and occasionally felt that Li Yu's talent lies in poetry, and he is a person with the utmost affection, if he can work hard in this regard, he may not be able to become another Tang Xianzu.

Tang Xianzu lived in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and his literary reputation was extremely prosperous, and his works were also widely praised by the general public after the fermentation of time. Chen Kai compared this, and Li Yu was humble again and again. However, for his talent in poetry and literature, he has always been the proudest in his life, or he relies on, and Chen Kai's words have hooked his mind.

"Don't hide it, Brother Fool has indeed written a legend recently."

"Can you take a look?"

first cut off the pronoun of Yizi as the number, and now even the name of the pseudonym has to use Chen Yonghua's, Chen Kai's shamelessness can be described as the peak. At this moment, when I heard that Li Yu had written a legend, I was excited from the inside out, without concealment, and in Li Yu's eyes, I was also delighted, and I was glad that it was difficult to find a bosom friend, even if there was a lot of gap between this bosom friend and his level.

"There is nothing wrong with it."

After saying that, Li Yu took out a book from the bookshelf and handed it to Chen Kai's hand with both hands. However, when he saw the name of the book, the agitation in Chen Kai's chest was even worse, even to the extent that it was a little too much if it was not suppressed.

"Sympathy, this name has some meaning."

Open the book, and the text comes from the pavement: how can the true color be jealous, and the true talent begins to solve the mercy. Things are not the same kind of guesses, and they are like ridiculous. Although jealousy loses to women, infatuation also makes the skirt hairpin. Turning a jealous ruffian into an aesthetive is not an ordinary idiot.

Seeing this, Chen Kai already had no doubt about him. Next, read carefully, break the topic, the beginning of the marriage, the residence, the fasting visit, until the "cave room is open, the mandarin duck brocade mattress hibiscus quilt, the water ripples are canceled in the gold account." The left jade is soft, the right is fragrant and warm, and the middle is smooth. Both of them will do bear swaddling early, and next year this time the pearl will give birth to mussels, and see a pair of unicorns falling".

After looking at it, it was already dark, and Chen Kai was still unfinished. Looking up, seeing Li Yumu sending it on schedule, he seemed to be eager for Chen Kai's comments, so he immediately got up and bowed to the end.

"This talent, I won't let that soup come to Chuan. In the next intention, he will pay 2,000 taels of silver to help Qi Fan establish an opera troupe, and show his talent in this drama and in opera to the world. ”

What does two thousand taels of silver mean, if you pretend to raise soldiers, but the daily maintenance cost of forty or fifty soldiers for a year, the color and the daily maintenance of the reward, not counting the expenses of weapons, food, etc., not to mention the expenses such as settling-in expenses, expeditions, and meritorious rewards.

Two thousand taels of silver is really nothing for the army, but for a common person, it is a rare huge amount of money. Li Yu is now living in poverty, relying on friends to help, and he still has to sell to make ends meet. During this period, he left his footprints and figure in the streets and alleys, theaters and bookstores of Hangzhou, and he found in continuous contact, observation and understanding that in this bustling city, from the wealthy gentlemen and doctors to the ordinary citizens, they have a strong interest in drama, so they came up with the idea of writing this legend of mercy and fragrance, and put it into action.

Selling words to people engaged in the performance industry is his recent means of livelihood, and the establishment of a family class is not something he did not think about, but it is very far from that goal - after all, from a book writer, to a theater owner or a theater troupe owner, from a proletarian to a propertied person, he is really unattainable today.

Chen Kai's words directly turned his unattainable into reach, he knew very well that silver alone was not enough, too many aspects such as connections and venues had to be considered, but if there was no money, most of these things could not be touched.

"Fufu, I know that you are a person with a bold temperament, but I dare not accept this matter without merit."

"Don't dare?"

Hearing this, Chen Kai laughed, and then said: "Between you and me, you have a heart-to-heart relationship, and there is nothing to be done. Even in business, as far as I can see, the money is meant to be spent, and it is nothing more than a pile of stones. If I use it for business, it is nothing more than the profit of goods; Invest in Qi Fan, in exchange for a lot of things that silver can't buy. Whether it is friendship, or human affection, or even saying that when I am famous all over the world, I may also be able to use the name of Fan to enter and exit the door of dignitaries. This is also an investment, a win-win investment! ”

"But what if it's not as Fufu expected?"

"No, there's nothing to worry about. Doing business, no matter what you do, is always risky. I believe in my vision, don't you believe in your own talent? ”

Chen Kaiyang is sprinkled, always with the spirit of a wealthy businessman. It is undeniable that Li Yu is already a little moved, but he is still hesitant, which is related to the fact that his self-confidence has not yet fully gained momentum, but also because his experience, especially those setbacks, have deepened his doubts about the world and himself.

Seeing this, Chen Kai said earnestly: "Qi Fan, you are talented, and you are a genius, don't bury your talent in such a humble room." If it's not for others, even if it's just for your sister-in-law who has known each other for so many years, don't you want her to live a better life? ”

Speaking of which, Li Yu is not a person who saves money, if it weren't for his wife Xu over the years, and the woman he often affectionately calls the mountain wife in his writing, he is afraid that he would have been so depressed that he would have to beg for food. After more than 20 years of marriage, the former girl's face gradually began to age, but that love was always what Li Yu was most concerned about.

At this moment, Chen Kai said this, Li Yu sighed, got up and saluted, and answered the matter. And Chen Kai correspondingly said that the investment of 2,000 taels of silver is only the initial stage, and there will be more silver to follow up in the future, so he doesn't have to worry about the problem of silver.

"If we want to put this fragrant companion on the screen, uh, on the stage, we must first buy a troupe to come over, our troupe!"

Many years ago, Chen Kai was reading and saw such a sentence - when the devil stretches out the hand of temptation, its pure image can make the angel ashamed of himself. And at this time, he played the role of such a devil.