Luo Shui came in with a stack of manuscripts, and saw that his adult was teasing the pair of petite widows, and sat down while taking off his shoes, and said: "The slave specially instructed, don't teach them to speak, this is a unique charm, what do you think?" ”

"But I've got down to business?"

"There are also a number of widows, these two are too young to know much, and they can be relayed by others." Luo Shui said, waiting for his own adults to drive the two little ones away, sat down sideways, and motioned to the manuscript in his hand: "Do you want to read it yourself, or do you want to read it and listen to it?" ”

Zhu Yuan patted away the sycamore that rubbed over on the other side: "Of course you read it." ”

Saying that, seeing Luo Shui bending her thighs under her skirt forward, she flew over, smiled, lay down, pillowed her head on her lap, and felt the fragrance of her daughter at close range, Zhu Bao'er also found a very suitable reason: "It's time for a nap." ”

Luo Shui waited for the freehand who leaned over to help his adult cover the mattress, and at the same time helped to pull the cover, before turning to the manuscript in front of him, a little brewing, reflecting the light through the small window in front of him and began to read.

"The origin of the story, to say that in ancient times, Gonggong and Zhuan fought for the emperor, angry and unable to touch the mountain, so that the four poles were wasted, Kyushu was split, the sky was not covered, the earth was not circumferential, the fire was not extinguished, and the water was vast and the ocean was endless. In order to save the people, the Nuwa clan took the giant turtle enough to set up the four poles, and then refined 36,500 pieces of five-color stones to make up for the heavenly que. However, Emperor Nawa only used 36,500 five-colored stones to mend the sky, and only one piece was left unused, and it was abandoned on the Wuji Cliff of the Great Wilderness Mountain......"

Zhu Yuan, who was squinting and listening, couldn't help but smile when he heard this.

Luo Shui took a group of girls from the inner house to write several beginnings, and Zhu Yuan deliberately chose this.

Because, deep water terrier.

With such a beginning, it can be called "Dream of Red Mansions", but it can actually be called "Journey to the West".

Luo Shui felt the reaction of his own adults, paused, and saw that Zhu Yuan didn't say anything, so he continued to read.

The first part of the brand new is basically the same as before, and the content is destined to be very different.

I once read "Dream of Red Mansions", and I can't remember too much, but I still have some impressions of important chapters such as the beginning, such as the name of the first chapter, 'Zhen Shiyin's dream is psychic, and Jia Yucun's wind and dust are beautiful', Zhu Yuan just remembers.

And the first five uniques.

and, "Okay Song", Zhu Yuan only remembers the beginning of 'The world knows that the gods are good, but the fame can't be forgotten.' Where will the past and the present meet? The mound is gone'.

I don't remember later.

Because it was very important, Zhu Yuan asked Luo Shui and them to make up a new one, including Zhen Shiyin's interpretation of "Okay Song" when he had an epiphany.

Luo Shui is a very smart girl, coupled with her previous life experience, and the assistance of a group of women with different experiences around her, the new "Okay Song" feels not bad at all.

In general, the brand new first chapter talks about two main things.

Zhen Shiyin lost his daughter's epiphany, and Lin Ruhai was on his deathbed.

Two of the twelve hairpins in Jinling appeared directly.

In terms of specific content, starting from the redundant five-color stones, plus the vast master and the misty real person broke through the past of the Shenying attendant and the Zhuzhu Immortal Grass, and followed a group of men and women who had gone through the tribulation to go to the lower realm together, incarnating as a leper monk and a lame Taoist.

There are also settings that readers in this era will definitely look amazing.

Tears are still in the making!

Also, Zhen Shiyin and Jia Yucun's 'money stalk' is also novel at the moment, and Zhu Yuan has not changed, although the specific text is definitely very different from the original version, but the title of the first time is also intended to use the original version.

Although, Jia Yucun, no one who has read "Dream of Red Mansions" will like it, but he is indeed an important figure who promotes the plot throughout the whole story.

Whether it is the original or the new version, there will be no good ending.

There used to be a saying that after the defeat of the Jia family, Jia Yucun continued to rise, not only that, but Xue Baochai even became the concubine of Jia Yucun.

That's too far-fetched.

The ending of Jia Yucun, Cao Xueqin also gave it early, it was the couplet: there was more than enough behind him to withdraw his hand, and there was no way to turn back.

Jia Yucun, the 'gourd monk', has done so many 'gourd things', for "Dream of Red Mansions", which pays attention to cause and effect, it is impossible to have a good ending, and in the end, it should be impossible to turn back when you want to turn back, and it may be directly related to the collapse of the Jia family.

There is no way to know how it used to be, this time, in the overall plot, Zhu Yuan intends to continue this setting, so that Jia Yucun will become an introduction to the fall of the Jia family.

Overall, this time it's a story about the Grand View Garden.

Some of the key plots in the past, such as Yuanchun Provincial Family, Daiyu Funeral Flowers, Baochai Butterfly Fluttering, Tanchun Association, etc., including Grandma Liu's related, will not be less.

Zhu Yuan's requirements for Luo Shui are to be strange, interesting, and clever, and to 'grass snake gray line, thousands of miles away'.

As for the connotation mentioned by Lao Zhu before...... Let's step aside, anyway, as long as the book is finished and has caused enough impact, there will always be someone who will dig out the connotation from it, a thousand Harry Potter kinds, don't worry about Zhu Yuan.

Inside the cabin.

When Luo Shui finished reading, Zhu Yuan, who listened to it with relish, was still asleep, opened his eyes and said, "It seems that the number of words is a bit too much?" ”

Luo Shui nodded: "It's been streamlined, it's still nearly 8,000 words, my lord, do you want to change it again?" ”

"No, it's boring to modify it for the sake of the number of words," Zhu Yuan thought that the completed "A Chinese Ghost Story" was also more than 5,000 words, and planned to break the can: "A few more pages, a few more pages." ”

Luo Shui answered, sorting out the scattered manuscripts.

Zhu Yuan raised his head, looked at Luo Shui's delicate face from the bottom up, stretched out his hand to caress it, felt the woman slightly tilt her head to the side, and said with a smile: "Suddenly remembered, do you feel that you are a bit like Yinglian in it, that is, Xiangling?" ”

"It's not like that," Luo Shui didn't hesitate at all, and looked at it with bright eyes: "It's like a slave, and I don't think the adult will be that Baoyu." ”

"What's not like that?"

Luo Shui curled the corners of his mouth: "It's not like it at all." ”

"Well, girl, it seems that you have a lot of opinions about me, is it because I don't pity the jade enough, or because I don't like to eat your rouge?"

Luo Shui put the sorted manuscript aside, lowered his head, his lips opened slightly, and the heat was on Zhu Yuan's hand, fragrant and warm: "Do you want to taste the rouge of the slave, I just applied it when I came, and I added honey." ”

Zhu Yuan's left hand, which was still raised, wiped the corner of Luoshui's lips, withdrew it to his nose and sniffed: "Can honey be added to the rouge?" ”

"For adults."

"Looks like I'm going to have to taste it."

Luo Shui, who had been silently guarding the side, lowered his head and kissed his own adult, his eyes widened, envy and emotion.

Myself...... It's really not as good.

No wonder it's the interpretation flower.

Well.

According to the blank space, this is also called ...... Not serious.

Thinking like this, Luo Shui's head was quickly pushed away, and his own adult shouted: "Fooled, fooled, it's not sweet, I'm famous......"

Freehand: "......"

Luo Shui: "Hehe......"

Then they were kicked out, and according to their own adults, they were going to punish a woman who had the audacity to deceive them.

Freehand can only drive a group of people large and small out of this cabin.

When he came outside, he looked at the hot stove connected to the inner cabin by a porcelain pipe, and told the servant woman in charge of burning charcoal to watch it, both to provide heating and fire prevention, and then return to the cabin.

Staying in the guest room outside the cabin, I found an embroidered bandage embroidered with a handkerchief for my lord, and listened attentively.

There was no sound of punishment.

After a while, I couldn't help it, I walked over and lifted the curtain to take a look, the small window had been closed, and in the dim light, under the bedding, my adult only showed one head, lying sideways.

Luo Shui was lying on his back on the side, his head full of green silk spread, and a piece of white shoulders that made Freehand look slightly hot was exposed.

Luo Shui didn't fall asleep, noticed the freehand probe coming in, smiled at her, reached over the jade arm, and tightened the futon on the little man wrapped around him to avoid ventilation.

Freehand didn't look much and quickly put down the curtain again.

I woke up again, and it was another winter evening.

The boat docked, and as soon as he entered the door, He Xuan said that the people who rushed to Jing County to purchase paper returned in the afternoon, and a total of more than 1,300 knives of paper were obtained, all of which were stored in the warehouse of Jinling University.

In addition, a few samples were sent over.

Zhu Yuan strolled towards the inner courtyard and ordered the sample to be sent over.

Jingxian paper is actually rice paper.

This is the printing paper that Zhu Yuan selected for the "Daming Monthly".

Speaking of which, in this era, there are actually a lot of good papers, and each province south of the Yangtze River has its own famous paper everywhere, with a variety of names.

After Zhu Yuan's previous understanding, he made a rough summary.

Regardless of the craftsmanship or the fancy name, there are two main types of papermaking materials in this era: leather paper and bamboo paper.

Leather paper, as the name suggests, is made from all kinds of bark, and the finest paper of this era is basically leather paper.

Bamboo paper, not to mention. However, because of the relatively short development time and the limitations of materials and processes, the quality of bamboo paper cannot be compared with that of leather paper.

As for others, hemp paper, straw paper, cotton paper, etc., are not considered mainstream.

Speaking of the rice paper selected by Zhu Yuan, to be precise, this era is not called rice paper, although in the Tang Dynasty someone has begun to make it, but the fame of rice paper is actually gradually flourishing in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

At present, this kind of paper produced in Jing County, which is now under the Ningguo Mansion in ancient times, is called sandalwood paper because it is made of sandalwood bark, rather than the common bark.

Or the vellum category.

Moreover, although the fame has not yet opened, the quality has been quite affirmed, which can be seen from the price.

Even if Zhu Yuan asked people to go to Jing County to purchase in large quantities, the price of each knife still reached the consistent level of five. In comparison, some of the other leather papers that Zhu Yuan had seen before had a minimum price of 400 wen a knife. Not to mention bamboo paper, seventy or eighty pieces of paper are also very common, and the price of green sandalwood paper can be 20 times different.

And the size.

Zhu Yuan hoped to make "Daming Monthly" a 16-page book, which can only be said to be the standard later. At present, a standard piece of rice paper, three feet wide and one foot six high, is roughly similar to the size of the later 16 kai, and a large sheet can only be cut into 6 small sheets.

Calculated down, according to the thickness of 50 sheets and 100 pages, "Daming Monthly" is only the cost of paper, and each volume will reach 125 articles. Counting the engraving, ink and binding, it is estimated that each volume will cost about 200 Wen.

This is not counting the copyright value of its Chinese chapter.

Zhu Yuan plans to open the call for papers in the future and give the manuscript fee.

Also, a nationwide release in the future.

The cost of postage in this day and age will only be higher.

In short, after all things considered, if the magazine wants to make a profit commercially, the price cannot be less than 500 articles.

Half a commium for a magazine...... Annual subscription...... Even if it's a discount, 5 yuan......

Well......

It's better not to think about making money.

Vulgar!

After seeing the sample of the sandalwood paper, Zhu Yuan tried it that night, and asked the women around him to copy the completed "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Dream of Red Mansions" for the first time, and the next morning, they asked people to send them to the palace to read to Lao Zhu first.

By the way, look at the paper.

sent He Xuan into the palace to deliver the article, Zhu Yuan still didn't go out today, nor did he go fishing on the lake again, but came to the courtyard in front of the mansion to make a model of the steam engine.

As soon as he entered the door, Jin Sanhu, who was appointed by Zhu Yuan as the main minister, greeted him, saluted, and got up with a little invitation: "My lord, I have become another one." ”

Originally, Jin Sango was a craftsman who made carvings for the Yuan Imperial Family, and in this era, he was able to make complex machinery similar to the carvings of later 'clocks', and he was only more handy for steam engine models.

Zhu Yuan also cared about the clock, but after asking Jin Sanhu, he learned that the other party really had two elder brothers, named Jin Dahu and Jin Erhu, and they were both carving craftsmen. Among them, Jin Dahu's level of carving leakage is better than that of his third brother. It's just that before the Battle of Dadu, in order to preserve the family bloodline, the two brothers fled Dadu with their families, went to the countryside to avoid the war, and left Jin Sanhu to guard his family in the city, and was later escorted to Jinling.

Because of Zhu Yuan's attention, Jin Sanhu brought these things out.

Obviously, I also want to find a backer.

Zhu Yuan sent a letter to Dadu, asking people to find Jin Sango's two brothers, as well as other carving craftsmen, planning to set up a clock workshop after their arrival, and at the same time let Jin Sanhu change his career to make a model of a steam engine.

Saying this, some other craftsmen also came out of the house to greet Zhu Yuan.

Compared with the original selection of six people, under the joint recommendation of these people, there are as many as 21 craftsmen in this courtyard at present, and some of them still go to the next door. The number of craftsmen who made standard-sized steam engines there was even higher, reaching 39.

After greeting and sending everyone to get busy, Zhu Yuan followed Jin Sanhu to the main house in the courtyard.

The first thing you see when you enter the door is the mini railway track on the large table in the main hall, one inch wide, and there is already a small train on it, because the model is burnt wax, the style is different from later, mainly the water tank is placed at the back, and the steam locomotive is powered by a pipe connection.

This thing was done the other day.

What the craftsmen are working on at the moment is a steam engine ship.

Zhu Yuan's consideration was to wait for the cars and ships to be completed, and then call Lao Zhu to come and see.

What Jin Sango just said in the courtyard was not a steam steamer, but another one that Zhu Yuan casually explained before: a steam pump.

On both sides of the main house are open workshops, with large workbenches with tools and parts related to steam machinery, as well as pedal cutting devices made by Zhu Yuan when he was in Mingzhou.

And, of course, craftsmen.

Signaling the craftsmen to continue busy, Zhu Yuan followed Jin Sanhu to a table, where a steam engine was already placed, as well as a mini pumping machine, a thin leather pipe connected to the pumping machine, extending to a wooden bucket on the ground, and the water outlet at the other end of the pumping machine was facing a wooden basin.

In anticipation, Kim Sango added hot water to the steam model, which was to reduce the boiling time, and then lit the candle. When the water vapor came out, he gently flicked the steam engine wheel, and the little thing immediately spun rapidly.

Immediately, the water began to be discharged from the pump facing the end of the wooden basin on the table.

Zhu Yuan's eyes only lit up.

Because I understand that compared to steam trains and steam ships, which take an unknown amount of time to put into use, this pumping machine, as long as it is really functional, can be used for a long time.