Chapter Eighty-Seven: Bookworm

(It will be put on the shelves on time at 12 o'clock in the morning, and all brothers and sisters are invited to come and cheer!)

After entering the bustling city of Suzhou, Wang Fu still had palpitations and shouted bad luck, saying that he didn't expect to encounter a snake in the winter, and it was a huge and terrifying giant snake.

If something is abnormal, there must be a demon.

For this reason, he specially asked Chen Jianchen many times, asking if the snake had become a demon, and Chen Jianchen only replied vaguely that he did not know much.

He wasn't sure.

Or even if he was sure, what if he was sure? In the current situation, he would not be able to go over the mountains and mountains to catch demons. I don't know if the government will invite capable people to make a move, and it should be like the usual list to offer a reward, just like inviting someone to go up the mountain to fight tigers.

entered Suzhou, found an inn to live in, and settled down, but that night, I don't know if it was frightened or other reasons, Wang Fu actually launched a high fever. The servant hurriedly went out to ask Lang Zhong, diagnosed and prescribed medicine, and said that he would have to lie down for two days to fully recover.

There was such an accident as soon as he arrived at the ground, Wang Fu wanted to cry without tears, and the plan to travel with Chen Jianchen could only be put on hold for the time being.

However, he couldn't walk, but Chen Jianchen couldn't be idle, and after talking to Wang Fu, he walked out of the inn alone, ready to walk around and learn about the customs.

The city of Suzhou is much bigger and more prosperous than Jiangzhou, even in the cold winter, the streets are endless and bustling. The city is full of pavilions and pavilions, and there are small bridges and flowing waters, which is quite a bit of the atmosphere of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. If it is in the spring of March, the sky is raining lightly, and walking on the streets and alleys with an oil-paper umbrella should have more flavor.

"There is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book......"

Suddenly, a loud reading sound came from the front, and when I fixed my eyes, it was a man in an old blue Confucian shirt, holding a book in his hand, shaking his head and reading as he walked, and as if there was no one around, he was completely immersed in it, ignoring the eyes and opinions of outsiders.

It was cold, but he was thinly dressed, and the shoe he was wearing on his left foot had a small hole, and one thumb was showing through. The whole person looks very untouched.

"Look, that bookworm is out again......"

"It's really pitiful, I heard that his house is out of cooking after winter, and he pities his old mother......"

He was so stunned that he was said to have a collection of books in his house that could sell him for a lot of silver, but he would rather be hungry than sell them. ”

"Hehe, otherwise how can you call it a bookworm. Those books were left by his father, and he loved them like his life, let alone sell them, and he couldn't even touch them by others. ”

The people on the street pointed to the man and talked about it, shaking their heads and sighing, pitiful, and despised.

Listening to these discussions, Chen Jianchen was quite curious, so he asked, and this inquiry really inquired about a "superb" reader.

It turns out that this person's surname is Zhang, his name is Yun, the word Yuzhu, a native of Suzhou, is a scholarly child, and his ancestors have been officials to Taishou, but because they are honest officials, they have been passed down from generation to generation, and there is little wealth, and there is only a room of books left.

Zhang Zhaoyun reads a lot, can do a good article, at the age of eighteen he was admitted to show his talent and fame, every year in the annual examination, that is among the best, but the article is hateful, and he has participated in several township examinations are not on the list, and he has not been able to be promoted.

His father died early, and an old mother who was unable to work depended on him, and he had no ability to operate, and his family was getting poorer and poorer year by year, and finally everything was sold, leaving only a room of books, and his life became more and more poor, almost to the point of not having three meals.

If you change to an ordinary person, you will definitely find a way to make money if you can't live anymore, Zhang Zhaoyun is from a show, if you think about it, it is still easier to make money. But he was good, he didn't go out of the door, he stayed at home almost all day long, studied day and night, winter and summer, and did not propose marriage, as for the visit of relatives and guests, he could not say two or three words, so he put the guests aside, held a book by himself, and read it aloud.

In such a situation, where can those guests sit still? Quickly pat their butts and leave.

In fact, Zhang Zhaoyun is not bent on becoming an official, but believes in the famous words of ancient poetry: "There are thousands of Zhongsu in the book, there is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book!"

The reason why he was convinced was that there was some origin, it turned out that once he was reading, a sudden gust of wind blew a book away. Zhang Zhaoyun hurriedly went to chase after it, but the place where the scroll fell was a cellar with rotten grass in it, and when he dug it up, he found a lot of rotten grain, which was no longer edible - this place was a place where grain was stored in ancient times.

However, Zhang Zhaoyun immediately decided that the book had a spirit and took him to this cellar, which confirmed the famous saying "There are thousands of bells in the book".

On another occasion, when he was cleaning up his ancestral collection, he found a portrait of a beautiful woman cut out of brocade cloth on page 38 of an ancient book.

The portrait is cut very evenly and delicately, with a pen and ink depiction of the face and clothing, and the eyebrows are so lifelike that it is almost like coming to life.

When Zhang Zhaoyun saw it, he was surprised and delighted, and immediately thought of the sentence "There is Yan Ruyu in the book", and when he looked at it, he immediately became a little stupid.

Since then, he has put this lady's painting on the table every day, and he can't put it down and look at it with great affection, even to the point of "forgetting to eat and drink on his pillow"! At night, he often dreamed that he met the lady, and his affection lingered, and he was indescribably attached and intoxicated......

Zhang Zhaoyun's old mother saw that he was like going mad, and she didn't listen to any persuasion, so she could only sigh. In addition, the old man had to go out on crutches, beg for food on the street, and get some food every day for his son who was over 30 years old.

As the saying goes, "white-haired people send black-haired people", it hurts the world, so what about "white-haired people raise black-haired people"?

What a helpless sorrow it is!

Hearing this, Chen Jianchen was inexplicably a little angry: What is the use of a nerd like Zhang Zhaoyun, even if he reads more than 10,000 books? If he can't do academics well, he can't do business, he can't do practical things, and he has to be supported by his sixty or seventy-year-old mother, who is just like a parasite, and it's really useless.

Hey!

Chen Jianchen suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, savoring the almost absurd little story he had heard, and suddenly thought: Could it be that the picture of the lady sandwiched in the ancient book has spirituality and has become a spirit?

This is not an impossible thing, animals become demons, vegetation becomes spirits, stones can become monsters, then, it is very possible for a lady to become a spirit.

Thinking of this, Chen Jianchen quickened his pace to keep up with that Zhang Yun-he had decided in his heart that he wanted to take care of this matter!

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