Today is the second day of October, and Quzhou has successfully drained the water of the moat, but who knows that it has just been exposed to the sun for two days but caught up with a heavy rain, which undoubtedly slowed down the progress of some projects. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Yesterday was the October Festival, the day of sending winter clothes, Li Yu rushed back this time on the grounds of worshiping his ancestors, otherwise he would arouse suspicion as soon as he came back from the Manchu occupation area. Moreover, it is said that he brought the whole family back specially for this time to worship his ancestors, and it is likely that he will not return within a few years after this departure.

The messenger came and went, Chen Wen and Li Yu made an appointment in a restaurant in the west of the city, which had been emptied in advance, and the diners left behind were all Chen Wen's guards in disguise, and the shopkeeper and his men had also informed them, but it was Li Yu who was the only one who concealed it.

Before the afternoon of the third day of October, Li Yu came as promised, wearing the Taoist robe often worn by Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty, but there was a money rat tail on the top of his head and in the middle of the back of his head.

The two compartments met the courtesy, and they sat down in a secluded window position. Chen Wen and Li Yu so-called met, but they intersected with words, and after a little greeting, Li Yu took out a large dozen manuscripts bound with thread, and motioned for Chen Wen, the employer, to review them.

The first page of the manuscript clearly writes the title of the book of Love in a Fallen City, Chen Wen only knows the general plot of Zhang Ailing's original story, and has not read the original book, the outline he wrote to Li Yu is actually the rough plot to Chongzhen's seventeenth year of Jiashen Guocao's history to the Jinhua Massacre.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the early Hanlin Bai family in the early Ming Dynasty, which was once prosperous, had fallen into decay due to the fact that they did not provide a single person for several generations.

Bai Tassel, the sixth lady of the Bai family, is a well-known talented girl in the city, and she married one of her father's sons of the same year in her early years. But who knows, his father, who was originally very promising for the title of the gold list, died depressed in the list again and again, and his one who was on the high school list in the same year became a high-ranking official, and he became a high-ranking official in more than ten years.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, although he suffered a national disaster in Jiashen, this year was also the day when the white tassel came out of the cabinet. The two were originally almost the same, and they were a good match, but now they are very different. The old lady of the Bai family was afraid that her granddaughter would be angry with her in-laws when she got married, so she asked the family to make up a large dowry. For this matter, several brothers passed the buck to each other, and the concubines were scheming with each other, and finally made up under the coercion of the old lady, but before Bai Tassel got married, her husband-in-law who was married to her fingertips died in the torture of the thief Li Zicheng, and even her father's one in the same year was not spared.

The marriage did not work out, and her in-laws simply threw the responsibility on her head, saying that she had killed her father-in-law and husband and refused to return the dowry. That family is an official eunuch family, although it has encountered great difficulties, but there are many protégés who are old, and their words are far tougher than those of the Bai family. For this reason, the white tassel endured the cynicism of relatives at home and saw the heat and coldness of the world.

Fortunately, her father had a student named Fan Liuyuan who was acquainted with Chen Zilong, who had quelled the Xudu Rebellion, and with some strength, he finally forced the family to return the dowry. However, Bai Tassel was physically and mentally exhausted in this series of battles, so she simply supported her mother to live in the small courtyard in the south of the city where her father lived when he was studying, away from those snobbish relatives.

Coincidentally, Fan Liuyuan lives in the vicinity. Due to the previous events, the two became acquainted with each other as soon as they came and went, and there were some misunderstandings in the middle, and at the same time, they were also afraid of people's words, and there was no further development. As a result, two years later, the Qing army broke through the defense line of the Qiantang River, and the prince of Duanzhong, Boluo, and the chief military officer Ma Jinbao brazenly created the Jinhua Massacre.

During the three days of the massacre, Bai Tassel and Fan Liuyuan hid in the dry well of the small courtyard, and the misunderstanding was gradually resolved in the exchange, and then made a long-lasting promise. Three days later, the Qing army sealed their swords and went south to Fujian, and the two who were already dying of starvation escaped from their predicament with the help of other survivors and soon became husband and wife.

This is the outline that Chen Wen wrote before, because he didn't know much about the specific storyline, so he simply wrote a rough outline and handed it to Li Yu to fill in. As a result, a few months later, Li Yu not only completed the filling of the plot, but also changed the outline a lot, I don't know if the concept between Li Yu and Zhang Ailing is very different, or Chen Wen set this story too bluntly.

In Li Yu's rewriting, the plot of the story has ups and downs, which is far stronger than the somewhat dry plot in Chen Wen's outline. It not only highlights the beauty and kindness of the white tassel, but also perfectly integrates the historical events such as the Xudu Rebellion, the Jiashen National Disaster, the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty in the south of the Qing army, and the martyrdom of King Lu and Zhu Dadian, creating Fan Liuyuan into an ordinary scholar who is good at empty talk and not good at practice. In the finale, Fan Liuyuan was killed by the Qing army in order to find food for the two, and Bai Tassel hanged himself after learning of Fan Liuyuan's death after being rescued, writing this love story into a tragedy.

But if you think about it, shouldn't this improved story be a tragedy?!

I don't know how many pots of wine have been served, and the hot water of warm wine has been changed many times, Chen Wen drank the wine while carefully reading this story that was integrated into the history of the late Ming Dynasty, until it was already dark. For a while, it reminded him of the past when he sat at home and watched a classic novel when he was off work.

"Brother Qi Fan, the story is full of ups and downs, hearty, and it is indeed far better than the story outline written before."

"Don't dare. Originally, I was going to write that when Fan Liuyuan went out to look for food, the white tassel was found by the Tartar in the dry well and was ****, and Fan Liuyuan only saw the body of the white tassel after finding the food and came back, so after the Qing army sealed the knife, he angrily defected to Wang Shi. But after thinking about it, I still can't put pen to paper, so it's the only way for the time being. ”

From perishing in silence to erupting in silence, at least in Chen Wen's view, the latter is superior to the former. But looking at Li Yu again, when he said this, he was tired and sentimental, Chen Wen remembered that Li Yu's words were not like this, maybe what he did brought him a lot of burden.

"Your Excellency may not know, it has been several months since I received the outline of this story, and it can be said that I have stopped writing and writing it until recently. During the period, I tore up the manuscript several times, and wanted to abandon the pen several times, otherwise it would have been sent to your case a long time ago. ”

Li Yu said a word, Chen Wen suddenly didn't know how to answer, and before he could think about how to respond, Li Yu seemed to open the floodgates, releasing the words that had accumulated for many years

"When I received your outline, I almost threw away the letter, because I really didn't want to face that bloody massacre. However, since the story you sent me earlier really attracted the following, I read the outline with the intention of taking a casual look, and then the second and third times. In a whole day, I have come up with more than a dozen story backgrounds, and the specific plot of the whole story has also surfaced in my mind, so I just need to write. ”

But when I put pen to paper, I don't know why, I always feel that something is wrong with this story. It wasn't until a few days later that Zai Xia figured out that it wasn't that the story was wrong, but that he didn't want to face it in his heart. With that, Li Yu took care of himself and got a glass of wine and drank it all.

After nearly half a month, I felt that I couldn't go on like this, so I picked up the pen and wrote according to your outline and the plot in my mind. But the more I wrote, the more distraught I became, and finally I had to stop writing, but the next day I picked up the pen again. In this way, after a few times, I finally came out of it, but many things in the text and plot had to be constantly considered. ”

"It's easy to finish the previous story, but when I write the last part of the slaughter, the previous feeling seems to have returned......

"When I first arrived in Hangzhou, although I had friends to sponsor me, I never had a serious livelihood, and my family was having a hard time. Since I received the remuneration from Your Excellency, my family is finally much more comfortable. I'm not afraid of Your Excellency's jokes, I always think that if I give up my pen and don't write, my family will have to struggle again, so I have to continue to write. ”

"Originally, I planned to let Your Excellency bring it back after I finished writing, but it was at this time that the news of Linhaibo's defeat of the Tartars in Quzhou reached Hangzhou."

Recalling the ending that was never written, I realized that it was Wang Shi's efforts that allowed more lovers to become dependents in the end, so that they would not say goodbye to yin and yang in the barbaric slaughter of the Tartars. If China is stolen by Yidi, then there will be more Fan Liuyuan and White Tassels mutilated by the Tartars, and the beauty of the world can only exist in the story. ”

"Therefore, Zai Xia decided to leave Hangzhou, return to Jinhua with his family and friends who have the same thoughts, and by the way, I will hand over this manuscript to you, and at the same time ask your Excellency to give a testimony to Zaixia."

Speaking of this, Li Yu actually took out a paper-cutting knife from his cuff, looked at Chen Wen and smiled indifferently, and with his left hand, he held the money rat tail on the top of his head in his hand, and with a stroke of his right hand, the ugly money rat tail fell to the ground.

Between the rise and fall of the rabbit, Chen Wen's guards had just reacted, and before they could make a move, they saw the scholar cut the whip in front of their commander, and they were a little overwhelmed for a while. Even not only them, even Chen Wen was stunned, this was a possibility he had never imagined, but it happened in front of his eyes.

From the exchange of words, it can be seen below that Your Excellency must also be a righteous man with the clothes of the Han family. Although I don't know if you intend to do it, but these two stories are written, and I really feel a lot of things in the following, so I don't have to work hard for two things this time, and I hope your Excellency will forgive me. ”

At this moment, Li Yu seemed to be freed from the burden of Qianjun, and his whole person became refreshed. On the contrary, Chen Wen doesn't seem to have reacted to this kind of "artist" imagination, especially when he thinks of Li Yu's intention to join the army in Jinhua, even his expression is a little unnatural.

After talking for a while, Li Yu got up and said goodbye, and he also had a few friends who came to Jinhua together, and now lived in an inn in the west of the city. They planned to spend a few days to understand the functions of the Jinhua Ming Army and the various departments of the government, so as to prepare for the defection to the Ming Army.

The things he encountered today seemed to be a bit different, not like what Chen Wen often dealt with on weekdays, although this result was what he expected, but it still made him seem to be a little sluggish, and even left behind the matter of asking Li Yu to rewrite the couplet for Ba Yonglou. After he reacted from the stimulus, he still went to Sun Yu to make some arrangements for Li Yu and the others, and when he returned to the old camp to rest, or to return to the Quzhou front tomorrow, he received an incredible but reasonable news, forcing him to return to the Quzhou front line overnight today. (To be continued.) )