Chapter 38: The Bookshop Storyteller
Fu Xuechen's next place is the bookstore, and yesterday he had already agreed with Shopkeeper Liu to meet a few teachers who still have cooperation with the bookstore today.
Xie's bookstore has posted a notice outside the door yesterday, announcing the temporary closure of the bookstore, and today only half of the door was opened, so no more customers came to the door, only a few script masters arrived one after another, and were invited to the central area of the second floor that had just vacated today, and the wooden chairs on the table were temporarily placed in the central area to drink tea and wait, and the shopkeeper Liu Yu was accompanying him.
There are a total of four speakers, all of whom are not more than thirty years old, quite young, the eldest Luo Qi, who also looks the most calm and has the heaviest tonnage, and he doesn't talk much from the moment he comes in and sits down, and the youngest Wu Rui is only twenty years old, with a tender face, and he doesn't speak, only his eyes are smart, and he slides around.
Occasionally chatting a few words, are two men who have a little friendship with each other, both wearing the same style of Confucian shirts, Confucian shirts are washed to white, both of them are Xiucai of the Lianghu Hall in the south of the city, one is called Zhou Chong, the other is called He Ci, last year together in Beijing to take the exam, unwilling to go back, so I found this job of writing a book, relying in the capital.
Luo Qi is the master who has cooperated with Xie's bookstore for the longest time, and the level of writing is the highest among the four, and when Xie's bookstore was still prosperous, it can also rank in the top five, and the Cheng family's first bookstore in Beijing also poached him, but he refused.
Although Wu Rui is young, his writing is very aura, but unfortunately he has only published two volumes, and his grades are not up or down, and his reputation is not good, so no one digs him.
Zhou Zhong and He Ci are serious talents, and they have solid writing skills, but both of them started to write scripts after they fell to Sun Shan in the examination last year, and they have not yet figured out the market preferences, so the scripts they write are always a little embarrassing, and they are also left behind, and no one cares about them.
"I don't know if the owner asked me to wait, what is the discussion?" Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhou Chong couldn't help but open his mouth to inquire about Liu Yu.
Liu Yu told the truth: "My young master is here, he will know, Mr. Zhou, don't worry." ”
The atmosphere was a little dull, He Ci frowned with a hint of worry, glanced around at the store where the number of bookshelves had plummeted, and felt the vastness of the road ahead: "Can Shopkeeper Liu give me an accurate word, what is this bookstore?" Transfer or ......"
Luo Qi and Wu Rui were also very concerned about this issue, and they both looked at Liu Yu.
Liu Yu brought a smile on his face and said comfortingly: "Don't worry, gentlemen! The small shop is only temporarily closed, slightly repaired, and will reopen in the near future, and will not be transferred to others, but it will be changed to my young master. ”
The four of them looked at each other, and they didn't get relaxed, the store didn't plan to close down, which is a good thing, but it doesn't mean that the four of them will definitely be able to continue to cooperate with this bookstore, even if the new owner is the son and daughter of the old owner, there is no guarantee that the new owner will not terminate the cooperation with them.
Among the four people, Luo Qi has some accumulation in the script, if Xie's bookstore terminates its cooperation with him, he can also eat elsewhere, but after cooperating for a long time, it is inevitable that he is not willing to change to a new environment and adapt again.
The other three are a little panicked, they are not well-known in the world, and they may not be willing to use them when they leave Xie's bookstore, but the three of them are not wealthy, if they cut off this financial route...... Don't dare to think! Don't dare to think!
When he was worried, Fu Xuechen led Fu An to finally arrive.
Seeing that the new owner was actually a young man who was only twelve or thirteen years old, the four storytellers panicked even more.
After greeting and taking their seats, Liu Yu introduced the names, origins, and old works of the four remaining teachers to Fu Xuechen one by one.
Fu Xuechen read the old works of the four masters very seriously, and each old work only reads a few thousand words at the beginning, she doesn't care whether the ability of these four people to make up stories is good or not, what she sees is the style of these four people's writing, and the connection between the beginning and the end.
There is no vernacular text in these years, even if it is a storyteller, it is half-literate and half-white, which seems a little laborious, but aside from the structure and plot of the story, the writing of the four people is quite smooth and literary, even if it is Zhou Chong and He Ci, the two showmen, they have not made the mistake of procrastinating and verbose.
Fu Xuechen knew it in his heart, and raised his eyes to look at Luo Qi: "I don't know if Mr. Luo is familiar with the history of the late Han Dynasty and the early Yan Dynasty?" ”
That's right! There were Qin and Han dynasties in this time and space, but there was no Jin after the Han Dynasty, but a sudden force from the northeast, with 100,000 iron horsemen, invaded Luyu in the south, first swallowed the Northern Wei Dynasty, and then crossed the river to the south, and then destroyed Shu and Wu, and finally unified Kyushu and established the Great Yan Empire.
There are Wei Shu Wu, there are Three Kingdoms, and after reading Luo Qi's writing, the first thought in Fu Xuechen's mind is to get the Romance of the Three Kingdoms out.
Luo Qi hesitated slightly: "I dare not say that I am familiar with the history of the late Han Dynasty, but I know the general process and important historical figures below." ”
Fu Xuechen asked again: "Then do you know that there is a romance book about that period of history on the market?" Or related folklore? If so, what are they? In addition, can there be biographical works such as 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms'? ”
The four of them glanced at each other, and finally Luo Qi replied: "Back to Shaodong's house, there is no romance book about that era on the market, or there is, but there must be few people who care, so that we have never heard of it, the same is true of folklore, as for the Three Kingdoms, I have heard of this book, but this book is out of print on the market, and I will read it." ”
Fu Xuechen was immediately happy: "Since this is the case, then Mr. Luo, I will give you a task, I hope you can do it seriously." ”
Luo Qi was relieved when he heard Fu Xuechen give him a task, if he had a task to give, at least there would be no crisis of unemployment at the moment, and he nodded and said: "Young Dongjia just orders!" ”
"I give Mr. half a month, please try your best to find and collect all the historical documents and materials about Emperor Han Xian's accession to the throne and before the establishment of the Dayan Empire, and don't make mistakes or omissions about the records of people and events at that time, as for the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, I will try to help Mr. find it."
Fu Xuechen looked at Luo Qi seriously: "If you feel that half a month is not enough, Mr. can apply to me for an extension through Liu Yu's shopkeeper, at the latest on the 20th, when Mr. finishes collecting information, you can go to Jingbei Hou Mansion to submit a post to meet, and then I will discuss the follow-up with Mr. in detail, Mr. may be able to do it?" ”
"I will definitely live up to my mission!" Rozzie almost patted his chest.
Fu Xuechen smiled and nodded, and looked at Wu Rui again: "I look at Mr. Wu's words, clever and easy, the two books I have written are about fox fairies, basilisks and other spirits, Mr. has a soft spot for this kind of strange words?" ”
Wu Rui's face was a little complacent, and he was a little ashamed: "Yes, it's a pity that my ability is limited and I can't get good results, so I'm ashamed of the world." ”