Chapter Twenty-Three: The Frustrated Novelist

Bao Yuanqian helped him stumble step by step and entered Luo Guanzhong's big tent.

A smell of paper and ink came to his face, and Bao Yuanqian looked at it, only to see that it was still the same as always, with a mountain of paper and books piled up in the tent, and a servant carefully grinding ink on the table.

Every piece of paper is a high-quality paper, but now it has been scribbled and altered, put aside at will, and doesn't care about it, which makes Bao Yuanqian feel extravagant in his heart.

Four or five servants were meticulously sorting out and summarizing in the tent, for fear that Luo Guanzhong, an elderly old man, would throw a piece of it east and forget something important.

"Let's all go out...", Luo Guanzhong waved his hand, reprimanded the servant, and walked to the table and sat down.

Bao Yuanqian also looked at the manuscripts, texts, drafts, and discarded papers piled up on the table, and Bao Yuanqian had to help him clean up.

The heart said that this old Mr. Luo is usually sven, but once it is time for him to write a book and speak by himself, he forgets himself and forgets himself, as if he is informal, but he has three points like the uninhibited Li Bai's style of acting.

"Good boy, you help the old man and I take a look at this chapter, and say that the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang went to the princes of the Eighteen Roads...."

Luo Guanzhong handed Bao Yuanqian a booklet, which was inscribed with the fifth round of warm wine and Huaxiong.

It's just that when he looked at it, he saw that it was only written that Hua Xiong came to shout, and then Guan Yu came back with Hua Xiong's head, and the wine in Cao Cao's cup was still warm, but the process was empty.

Bao Yuanqian looked at the draft on the side, and wrote a lot, all of which were detailed plots, such as Hua Xiong's beheading of Pan Feng's second general, Guan Yu's beheading of Hua Xiong, etc., but he deleted and changed it, but he was not able to get it in the text booklet, and it seems that Luo Guanzhong himself is not very satisfied.

Bao Yuanqian looked at the draft, although the writing was meticulous, but it was almost meaningless.

Thinking about it, Luo Guanzhong, a person who has never been on the battlefield, how can he add literature to the plot of the fighting general?

This era is not like the later generations, searching on the Internet, there is everything, so this self-imagined plot of fighting generals made him stuck with Wensi.

"Hey, if you can really meet this life-and-death general, the two armies will fight, that kind of murderous spirit will definitely not be fake, and it will not be able to be performed. I can get it at my fingertips, old man, but alas.... If you haven't seen it, you haven't seen it, hey...."

He took a wine jug on the table and poured it into the spout, with a somewhat frustrated look, "In this life, although the old man was born well, he has repeatedly hit a wall, his future has been frustrated, his career is gloomy, and although his family has a huge amount of money, he will eventually reach eighty." I have to... I have to make something to let the world remember me and remember me before my 100-year letter expires.... The great husband will not come to the world in vain, and he will live for eighty years..."

Bao Yuanqian sighed lightly in his heart, every time Luo Guanzhong ate wine, he would mention to himself that his early years were not smooth and his life was mediocre.

When he was young, he was a rich son with a superior family background, and later in the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to fight for his success, he followed the leader of the rebel army in Suzhou and Hangzhou, Zhang Shicheng.

In his shogunate, he became a sword and pen clerk and handled official documents.

It's a pity that Zhang Shicheng is not a heroic hero, but a landowner who enjoys the thinking of one side and has no ambition to expand, so Luo Guanzhong, who is full of talent, is not used.

Later, Zhang Shicheng was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Luo Guanzhong's staff was also ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang not to enter the government for life, and retaliated against Jiangnan for heavy taxes.

Luo Guanzhong then cut off this way, can only concentrate on writing books, in his later years began the concept and content of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, now more than 20 years have passed, he has almost finished the book, just a little battlefield fighting, the two armies against him can not put pen to paper.

Even if he followed Zhang Shicheng when he was young, he may have met him by chance, but fifty or sixty years have passed, and he is old and faint and does not have these meticulous memories.

He was originally an ambitious person who aspired to the court, but he had a chaotic frustration in his life, which is also the fundamental reason why he was determined to write a near-perfect novel in his heart that could last for centuries.

He doesn't want to live this life, he wants to leave a name in history!

This is also the reason why not far away to come to this Suzhou Guard, here is close to the border fortress, surrounded by enemies on three sides, the battle is ordinary, even if he fights for the only remaining half life, but also to complete the book of the popular romance of the Three Kingdoms.

"Mr. Luo, since you don't know much about the confrontation between the two armies and the generals on the battlefield, why don't you make use of your strengths and avoid your weaknesses?" Bao Yuanqian looked at the frustrated novelist who was pouring himself drunk, and his heart moved.

I saw that Luo Guanzhong listened, his cloudy eyes became clearer, and he put down the wine jug and said, "You mean..."

Bao Yuanqian nodded and said: "Since you are not good at frontal depiction, why not use other people's audio-visual as the starting point and depict the side to highlight the tragedy of the frontal battle." ”

"For example, the princes in the tent heard the sound of killing outside the camp, and their hearts were shocked, and then Guan Yunchang carried Hua Xiong's head back to the camp..."

Luo Guanzhong swept away the haze, as if he had changed his thinking, and the pattern was wide open.

I saw his big hand slap and praised: "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!" Wonderful!! ”

Immediately, his face was slightly drunk, and he didn't write on the draft with a pen or ink, but took the booklet and put down the pen.

The tip of the pen danced on the booklet, and wrote freely, "The drums outside the village listened to by the princes vibrated loudly, and the shouts were loud, like the sky destroying the earth, and the mountain collapsed..... Yun Chang lifted Huaxiong's head and threw it on the ground, and its wine was still warm! ”

Bao Yuanqian saw it in his eyes, sighed in his heart, and secretly said that this Luo Guanzhong is really full of economy, wonderful writing, he just put forward an idea, but he is like a divine help, and he wrote this amazing paragraph in the blink of an eye!

"Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Luo Guanzhong did it in one go, picked up the booklet and got up to study this paragraph of himself repeatedly, and praised again and again, "Good boy, I Luo Guanzhong has been thinking about the plot that I haven't thought of for more than 20 days, and I actually let your little offspring say a word!" ”

Since Bao Yuanqian saw Luo Guanzhong's original Three Kingdoms, he realized that many of the plots he saw in later generations were actually not written in the original Luo Guanzhong's original work.

According to the requirements of the political situation of each era, literati of all dynasties would delete and modify Luo Guanzhong's original works, or even create their own works.

For example, Liu Bei likes music in Renwu's book, a good dog and horse, and the young Ren Xia is quite cool and chic, daring to love and hate, and his sex is as fierce as fire, which is closer to Luo Guanzhong's original.

However, in the Qing Dynasty, the good dog and horse were deleted from the Mao book, and the image of Liu Bei was gradually portrayed as an honest man who was benevolent, loyal and loved to cry.

But since Liu Bei deserves the word Zhaolie, he can't be an honest and loyal person, the situation in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty was chaotic, and he had a chivalrous atmosphere. Its people are fierce, its army is brave and ruthless, the two armies are at war, the generals are frequent, and the martial arts are abundant, which is why the products of this era, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin, spend such pen and ink to depict the reason for fighting and killing.

Now Bao Yuanqian was praised by Luo Guanzhong, and he was also a little weak-hearted, to be precise, his idea was also plagiarized from the classic plot of the later Mao book and Ren Wuben, so that he could not write such a good article with witty words, but by mistake Luo Guanzhong wrote it.

He smiled in his heart, and he was also witty, so is he one of the creations of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

Luo Guanzhong dissolved the congestion for many days, and couldn't help but feel happy, so excited that he didn't even use crutches anymore, and paced back and forth excitedly.

After Bao Yuanqian sorted out the draft of his text for Luo Guanzhong in the tent, he had a meal, but it was evening when he left the camp.

In the middle of the night, thousands of tents were lit up, bonfires crackled in the iron basin, and sergeants patrolled from time to time.

Bao Yuanqian found a place where no one was, remembered the essentials passed on by Uncle Bao, took off the Pu knife and waved it.

In the past few days, Uncle Bao will carefully pass on his essentials in the forest every night, he is not a weak layman, he is a sergeant who has seen blood, and he is used to using knives.

Now that Uncle Bao has to mention something, it is even more enlightened, and it seems to have opened the door to a new world, and the progress is extremely fast.

I saw a few knives swinged, there was a look, the knife tendons were upright, and the strength was abundant!