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The story of Zhou Chong's letting Zhao Er spread the word about his death began with the Song family's father and son coming to the door, and ended with Bang'er angrily scolding the Song family and his son and tearing up the marriage book himself. Although Bang'er only appears at the last moment in this story, and there is only one line, it establishes an image of a girl with affection and righteousness and a strong temperament for all listeners, and at the same time, it also sets off the shamelessness of Song's father and son from the front.

Although the above story is made up, the shamelessness of Song's father and son is a fact, but Zhou Zhong carried out artistic processing on this basis, and at the same time established a positive image for Bang'er, so that even if Bang'er was withdrawn from marriage, she also got the favor of many people, and I believe that many people will be willing to marry a woman like Bang'er in the future.

As soon as the news of the Song family's divorce came out, it immediately had the effect that Zhou Chong had expected, and all the discussions began to be one-sided in favor of their Zhou family, after all, in the era of the Ming Dynasty, divorce is very despised, especially the party who was divorced is still in a weak position, coupled with the despicable means of the Song family's father and son, this makes everyone begin to sympathize with the Zhou family.

We must not underestimate the strength of this kind of public opinion, especially in ancient society, which also attached more importance to personal morality, and a person with bad morals was far more affected than later generations.

The father and son of the Song family used this despicable means to withdraw from the marriage, which made the Song family on the cusp of public opinion for a while, and even the business of the Song family was greatly affected, for example, they originally controlled the purchase of cloth by many Songjiang weavers, but now many weavers despise the character of the Song family father and son, and begin to sell the cloth they weave to other families, anyway, the price is the same, and the impact of selling to whom the weavers is not very great. As a result, the Song family's business was greatly affected, and many of the goods that were originally promised to others were delivered on time, which once again increased the reputation crisis of the Song family.

Of course, the Song family did not allow others to knead the soft persimmons, and they also made several counterattacks during the period, and even declared that Zhou Zhong felt that he could not pay off the debts of the Song family, so he voluntarily gave up the marriage of the two families and exchanged the marriage book for the IOU in the hands of the Song family. Although this news was fabricated before, it is also true that the marriage letter was exchanged for an IOU.

Regarding the story that the Song family learned to make up by themselves, Zhou Zhong also fought back through Zhao Er, telling everyone that he had paid off all the debts of the Zhou Mansion, adding up to tens of thousands of taels, is there still a debt of two hundred taels from the Song family?

Zhou Chong's counterattack is not poisonous, everyone knew that the Zhou family owed a lot of debts, but they didn't expect that it was only a little more than a month, and the Zhou family's debts were all paid off, and even some good people checked with some creditors of the Zhou government, and it turned out that Zhou Chong did not lie.

Now everyone firmly believes in Zhou Chong's words, although the Zhou Mansion has fallen, but Zhou Chong will never take the initiative to give up his sister's marriage with the Song family because of only two hundred taels, after all, after the divorce, Miss Zhou's life is almost ruined, that is Zhou Chong's own sister, and Zhou Chong is also a scholar no matter how he says, it is absolutely impossible to do such a thing.

In addition, the most critical thing is that Zheng Jing, Li Zheng, and Zhang Kuang mobilized the students in the school to support Zhou Chong while violently attacking the Song family's despicable means of withdrawing from the marriage. The influence of these students should not be underestimated, they are either from scholarly families or rich people, and there are very few talents from the really poor.

Whether it is the influence or potential power of these Xiucai themselves, it is not something that the Song family can resist, in the face of the unanimous crusade of the Xiucai, the Song family does not dare to defend themselves at all, and even the people of the Song family have become the rats crossing the street in Songjiang Mansion, and they have almost fallen into a situation where everyone shouts and beats.

For this situation, even Zhou Zhong himself didn't expect it, after all, as a later generation, his cognition of Xiucai is still at the level of 'poor Xiucai', and he didn't expect that Daming's Xiucai is not only poor, but also has such a great influence in the local area? If he had known this earlier, where would he have spent so much scheming, and would have directly found Zheng Jing and them for help.

Although public opinion cannot kill people, nor can it make the Song family bankrupt, but at least the Song family's father and son have been disgraced, and I heard that the Song family's business has also been greatly affected.

For the tragic situation of the Song family, Zhou Zhong did not have any mercy, anyone who did something wrong had to pay the price, especially the villain like the Song family's father and son, who almost ruined Bang'er's life, if they didn't get the punishment they deserved, wouldn't it be too cheap for them?

"Good! Good! That's great! In the courtyard where Zhou Chong lived, Steward Xu let out continuous exclamations while flipping through the completed Journey to the West.

Zhou Zhong didn't pay much attention to the affairs of the Song family, after all, the most important thing for him now is to make money to support his family, and the first ten chapters of Journey to the West were quickly written by him, but in these ten chapters, only half of them were written by Zhou Chong himself, and the remaining half was dictated by him, and then written by Bang'er, after all, if a person writes for a long time, his arm will not be able to stand it, and the two of them can save a lot of time by writing alternately.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that there are some more rebellious words and phrases in Journey to the West, such as Sun Wukong's sentence "The emperor takes turns to sit and come to my house tomorrow", Zhou Zhong made some modifications, making Journey to the West more like a pure mythological novel, reducing some irony of reality, so as not to cause trouble for himself in the future.

"Young master, your book of Journey to the West is so exciting, I dare to guarantee that as long as it is preached on the market, I am afraid that all the previous Journey to the West will disappear, and all Journey to the West in the future will be based on your book!" Steward Xu probably looked at it, his face was full of admiration, if only the book Journey to the West was wonderful, what was even more rare was that his young master had written so much in a few days, this speed made Steward Xu and Bang'er both shocked him, and made Zhou Zhong even more mysterious in their eyes.

"Hehe, that's nature, it's just a Journey to the West, if this book can be sold at a good price, there are still many good novels here in Young Master!" Zhou Zhong is also very proud, in addition to Journey to the West, he has read many classical novels, such as Dream of Red Mansions, Romance of the Gods, Golden Bottle Plum, etc., these novels and Journey to the West have their own merits, if they appear in advance, they will definitely cause a greater sensation. But to be honest, Zhou rewriting novels to make money is only a temporary expedient measure, and when he has the first pot of gold in his hands, he probably won't have much heart to write novels.

If it was placed in the past, Steward Xu still had some doubts about Zhou Chong's words, but now after seeing the first ten episodes of Journey to the West, he no longer has any doubts about Zhou Chong's words, and secretly thought in his heart, it seems that his young master is not only a prodigy in the imperial examination, but also a genius who writes novels, not to mention anything else, I am afraid that this Journey to the West alone will go down in history.

The first ten chapters of Journey to the West were written, and the next thing to do is to see Steward Xu, storytelling is not reading, not just reading the content of the book, but according to the content of the book, plus some content and actions added by the storyteller himself, the whole story will be told more fully and vividly, and even some storytelling skills will be used in some places, which will require Steward Xu to spend some time.

In addition, Steward Xu suggested that Zhou Chong, the first ten times can't all be said, but just talk about the sixth time, because the sixth time just happened to be Sun Wukong making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and then fighting with Erlang God.

Zhou Zhong also agreed with these suggestions of Steward Xu, after all, he didn't understand them, and Steward Xu, a semi-professional, must have his own reasons, so he didn't have to command blindly as a layman.

After a few days of preparation, Steward Xu finally compiled the content of the first six episodes into the form of a storytelling book, and in order to test the effect, he also deliberately found a time to gather the people in the family, and then spoke it in front of everyone.

In later generations, storytelling, like opera, young people have rarely come into contact with these things, for example, taking Zhou Chong as an example, he has only seen some elderly people listening to books with the radio, but he has not heard it himself. But now after listening to Steward Xu's Journey to the West, although he has long been familiar with the content, he still listens to it with relish and feels very interesting, no wonder storytelling in the Daming market is so popular.

Got the affirmation of the family, Steward Xu also seemed very excited, he immediately went to contact the white housekeeper of the White Mansion, put forward his request to tell stories in the Fengyou Teahouse to support the family, the white housekeeper is also a righteous person, but also admired the Steward Xu's character of never abandoning the main family, so he quickly greeted the shopkeeper of the Fengyou Teahouse, and arranged for Steward Xu to tell stories in the teahouse in the afternoon.

Coincidentally, just when Steward Xu had just finished preparing for the storytelling, Zhou Chong suddenly received an invitation from Zheng Jing, Li Zheng, and Zhang Kuang, on the grounds that several people had not gathered for a long time, so they wanted to ask Zhou Chong to come out and talk about it, saying that there was something important to discuss. In addition, they also know that there are more things in Zhou Chong, so the time and place are determined by Zhou Chong.

Zhou Chong, who received the news, was also happy, and quickly replied to a few people, telling them that they would meet at Fengyou Teahouse two days later, and also made it special to point out that they must be in the hall on the first floor, and invite them to watch a good show at that time!

Since the last time Zheng Jing and their joint Xiucai helped him a lot, Zhou Chongcai suddenly discovered that he still had a neglected Xiucai identity, in the era of the Ming Dynasty, the fame of a Xiucai can bring him a lot of unexpected benefits. This discovery made Zhou Zhong also begin to pay attention to his identity as a showman, and Zheng Jing's righteous friends should also contact each other more, on the one hand, to express gratitude to each other, on the other hand, these connections are also a fortune, and they must not be given up easily.

Of course, Zhou Zhong invited the other party to Fengyou Teahouse this time to listen to Steward Xu's storytelling, and also wanted to take advantage of the relationship between these people, if they were also interested in Journey to the West, then he would hand over the manuscript to a few people, if it could be spread among the scholars through them, he would definitely be able to make a name for himself faster.