The mansion of the Lu family in Kure County.

"Gongji, if you understand these things, you can go to Wu Hou's hotel later (not a hotel in the modern sense, in that era, the hotel meant Zhaoxian Hall, and it can also be understood as a recruitment point) to recommend yourself."

Lu Ji nodded to Lu Ren with a bitter face. To say that Lu Ji has actually just passed the crown ceremony this year, the young man is also very handsome. But because I want to do something I'm not interested in, my face is naturally a little ugly. After being silent for a while, Lu Ji asked Lu Ren, "Brother, why don't you go out again?" ”

Lu Ren was happy: "Don't talk to me, you are you, I am me." In real terms, I'm just a sideline, and of course you have to be a direct descendant of this kind of thing. Don't forget, I don't know where I should be on the family tree, so I haven't been able to make it into the family tree yet. ”

As soon as he said this, Lu Ji was speechless, and Lu Ren snickered in his heart. Lu Ren is simply a guy who came out of thin air, and his life experience is all made up blindly, so it is strange to be able to find his place in the genealogy of the Lu clan of Wu County. This is Lu Ren's high status and fame, otherwise maybe the Lu clan people will think that Lu Ren is a person with a foreign surname who wants to blend into the Lu clan.

After seeing Lu Ji speechless for a while, he shook his head lightly and said: "In the early years, the world was chaotic, and there were many scattered people in the clan, so there were quite a lot of people in the clan who could not be tested for the score, and it was not a big deal to be like my brother." It really didn't work, so my brother and I and Bo Yan were in the same generation, and then they were marked a little. ”

How do you think Lu Ren cares about this? Even if it is not included in the Lu family tree, will the current Lu clan people regard him Lu Ren as a person with a foreign surname? Lu Ren is now their Lu clan's signature figure! Who will have enough to eat and have nothing to smash their own signboards?

At that moment, Lu Ren smiled casually, and said, "You can just look at it", and then pointed to a small wooden box he brought and said, "Well, this is the second volume of "The Legend of the Sword Immortal", and it took me and your sister-in-law Wen Ji a lot of time to compile it. ”

Lu Ji was overjoyed when he saw it, so he hurriedly took it, and read it carefully one by one after opening it. He also said: "Great! I've been waiting so much! At the end of the first volume, Zhao Ling'er was willing to be taken away by Elder Shi in order to protect Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru, and I always wanted to know if Zhao Ling'er and Li Xiaoyao could have another day. ”

Lu Ren looked at Lu Ji's impatient appearance, and couldn't help but secretly hold his forehead, and said in his heart, What is this sister's name? Thinking about it myself, since the time travel, pirated music from the "Sword and Fairy" series has been commonplace. But it's just like this, when I was in Yizhou before, I was full and had nothing to do to make up the plot of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" into a story and tell it to Lu Lan's gang?

In fact, at that time, Lu Ren was also on a whim in his busy schedule, and made a cameo appearance as a pastime for Mr. Storyteller. In fact, it's similar to a normal man's situation of bragging and farting when he gathers and drinks with friends. I thought that everyone's excitement at that time would be fine as soon as it passed, but I didn't expect that Lu Lan, Zhao Yu, and Lu Lingqi would be addicted to it as soon as they heard it, and asked Lu Ren if he had made up the next story whenever he was free.

If it was just like this, what surprised Lu Ren the most was that mature women like Cai Yan persuaded Lu Ren to make up this story well, so the first volume of "The Legend of the Easy Sword Immortal", which was dictated by Lu Ren and then recorded and polished by Cai Yan, came out in Yizhou.

As soon as this book came out, it immediately spread in the small town of Yizhou...... To be precise, Cai Yan only completed one volume of manuscripts at that time. Although there is a small-scale paper mill in the small town of Yizhou, due to the limitations of their own development, Lu Ren and Shirley have not yet considered the matter of getting the printing process out now.

After all, the total population of Yizhou was only 12,000 or 3,000 at that time, and there was a huge shortage of manpower everywhere. The main reason for the establishment of the paper mill was to meet some administrative needs, but there was really no need for printing products at that time. Because some related things have not yet been figured out, the initial investment will be relatively large, and then the current population of Yizhou Town. There's nothing to be gained by getting the printed products out.

Therefore, the circulation in Yizhou is mainly Lu Lan, Zhao Yu, and Lu Lingqi, who read the manuscript written by Cai Yan, and then they tell it to their subordinates. And then they tell it to others...... To put it simply, it is passed on by word of mouth, so that it spreads in Yizhou in the form of legends.

There are very few people in the world who don't like to listen to stories, and the life in the small city of Yizhou is quiet, and there are indeed fewer activities such as culture and entertainment. Although there are some chess and card games and the like, not everyone likes to play. In contrast, storytelling is a more popular recreational activity. This is also the reason why a single volume of stories can quickly spread in Yizhou. And this kind of thing is not unusual, even in modern society, there are not a lot of people who like to tell some interesting anecdotes they know as stories, and those who are willing to listen to them are also grasping a lot of them?

Of course, Lu Ren understands this truth, and after a little speculation, he has such a plan, that is, after Yizhou develops to a certain extent, printed products must be made, and what can be said to be the most profitable among printed products? Newspapers and periodicals, of course. Now that there is such a thing, when the time comes, the stories collected and compiled by Cai Yan will be serialized in the newspaper, how can it be said that it can also drive the sales of newspapers and periodicals, right? When you are here, you can not only gain fame and fortune, but also drive the culture and education of the small city of Yizhou...... Do you want to see the story? At least you have to be literate, right?

It is with this idea in mind that Lu Ren also has a very supportive attitude towards Cai Yan in this matter. Fortunately, the person who wrote the pen is Cai Yan, a talented woman, if Lu Ren wants to write it himself, one Lu Ren really can't spare that time, and the other is that with the pen and ink in Lu Ren's stomach, I am afraid that the original wonderful and poignant story will become dull and boring under Lu Ren's pen. So Lu Ren basically only needs to hand over the main outline to Cai Yan, and then give Cai Yan some hints and help in some corresponding places, and then use Cai Yan's writing and writing to write a much more moving story.

But what happened next surprised Lu Ren. After "The Legend of the Easy Sword Immortal" spread in Yizhou, some Lu disciples inevitably brought the content of this volume they heard to Wu County in the process of running the boat, and as a result, it also spread on Wu County's side, and somehow spread to Lu Ji's ears.

I don't know what happened to Lu Ji, maybe it was because he was under twenty years old and was so interested in this kind of legend and story, Lu Ji actually went to Yizhou in person to ask Lu Ren and Cai Yan for the manuscript, the reason was that under word of mouth, there were too many misinformation, so that some of the plots and content he heard were a little out of taste.

Lu Ji came in person, can Lu Ren and Cai Yan agree? So I asked Lu Ji to copy a copy of it himself. Afterwards, Lu Ren asked Cai Yan very curiously why people like Cai Yan and Lu Ji were so interested in this matter, and Cai Yan told Lu Ren with a smile. One is that the story "made up" by Lu Ren is really exciting; Second, after Cai Yan arrived in Yizhou, because Lu Ren had an extra Shirley by his side, Cai Yan no longer had to help Lu Ren deal with some things from time to time like when he was in Xuchang, and he became more or less idle and wanted to find something to do;

And the three...... If such a book is written completely, although it is not a canonical history, and of course it is not even a wild history, but in terms of the concept of people at that time, it still belongs to the book and the theory, which is a big event for a literati. Don't think this is, just think about the stories of gods and monsters like "The Classic of Mountains and Seas".

After Lu Ren understood this, he broke out in a cold sweat at that time, and said in his heart that he had stolen the version this time. And under the influence of this mentality, Lu Ren naturally didn't dare to slack off on this matter. Later, Lu Ren took Cai Yan to Jingzhou to make the next arrangement, and continued to compile and write books with Cai Yan whenever he had free time. And this time on the return voyage to Yizhou, the second volume in Cai Yan's hand was basically completed, so he copied one more copy and handed it to Lu Ji along the way. There is no way to spread it in other people's mouths, but the original body can't be out of shape here. To put it mildly, I will use this as a manuscript to print and sell money in the future!

After looking at Lu Ji and watching some more, he suddenly remembered something, raised his head and said to Lu Ren: "I almost forgot, Mr. Zheng left a message before, saying that if my brother arrives in Wu one day, please ask my brother to go to Mr. Zheng's place, as if Mr. Zheng has something urgent to discuss with his brother." ”

"Mr. Zheng?"

Lu Ren was stunned. Mr. Zheng is Zheng Xuan, before the official start of the battle of Guandu, Lu Ren was temporarily sent by Cao Cao to Xuzhou to appease the people, Lu Ren in line with the mentality of making Yuan Shao feel bad, looking for an opportunity to save Zheng Xuan from Qingzhou...... It's okay to say that it's hijacked and gone. Later, considering some problems, for example, Lu Ren didn't want to let Old Man Zheng get out of Yuan Shao's tiger's mouth, but he entered Cao Cao's wolf's den, and then became a victim of the battle between Cao and Yuan's two major warlords, so Zheng Xuan was sent to Wu County to live in seclusion.

Counting it again, Old Man Zheng has also lived in Wu County for three years. usually writes books, researches scriptures or something, and lives a peaceful life, and Lu Ren has no intention of disturbing the peaceful twilight life of Old Man Zheng. But Lu Ren didn't go to find Old Man Zheng, but Old Man Zheng wanted to find himself at this time, what happened here?

Inexplicably, Lu Ren naturally asked Lu Ji: "Gongji, what is the matter with Mr. Zheng looking for me?" ”

Lu Ji shook his head, a literati like him, he naturally had twelve points of respect for Zheng Xuan, a master of scripture, and held the courtesy of a disciple, and he would often go to ask Old Man Zheng for teaching questions. And with it, some things that Lu Ji shouldn't ask about in Lu Ji's opinion, Lu Ji naturally wouldn't ask more...... (To be continued.) )

PS: (It's March.) February's update was disastrous, but I'm sure you'll understand that this is not the case in March. In addition, the bottle considered its own time and rest, and decided to change the daily update to after midnight, instead of the original about half past eleven. The reason is the original schedule, but if there is a situation, the bottle will not be able to do well, and you have to say goodbye to the full attendance award of the month. After zero, the response time can be much more abundant. Hehe. ）