Chapter 002: Threesome, there must be my teacher

There is a way to get the Taoist chicken dog ascend to heaven, obviously Chen Cao is not, I thought that after entering the Jinyi Guard, the days will be prosperous, only to know later, he is located in the Qianye Hundred Households is the most oily and water-free place in the entire Nanjing Jinyi Guard, Nanjing Palace is close to Zhongshan, located in the east of the city, the most prosperous Jinling Jinling Elimination Treasury Qinhuai River is also in this location, the west of the city, has always been a place to walk swill, dung, the people who live are basically idle people such as the three religions and nine streams, not to mention the heavy task of public security, most of the filial piety silver in hand has gone to the hands of the boss.

Since Chen Cao's cheap father Chen Fei died in battle, the Chen family, which was originally calculated, began to plummet, first of all, the pension, the tradition of the Ming Dynasty's noble and military cheapness, Chen Fei's general title pension silver was stripped from the beginning to the end, and only ten taels of silver were left in the hands of the Chen family, which was all entrusted to Chen Fei is the general of the Wei Mansion, otherwise, the responsibility for the defeat of Salhu, and the generals under the command of Juniper will suffer, if they have not died in battle, the consequences are still very serious.

Ten taels of silver, placed in a small family in the countryside can provide a family to live for a year, and in Nanjing City, ten taels of silver can live for half a month at most, for this reason, Chen Li also dismissed a lot of servants and maids in the original family, leaving only the old housekeeper and an old mother.

"Poor..."Chen Cao walked back and forth in the dormitory a few times, and how to make money has become the most critical thing now.

After dying once and not dying, Chen Cao realized that there are many benefits to crossing, others can do 'if you come, you will be safe', of course you can too.

Performers? No, Chen Cao shook his head, although this 'Chen Cao' has a body of tendons and some martial arts foundation, but he is also a brocade guard, and he can't be embarrassed, otherwise his job will be sold.

Although I don't know what an automatic rifle pistol is in this era, everyone knows about firecrackers, and making firecrackers privately is equivalent to rebellion, and the head should be hung high on the roof of the sun.

Thinking of this, Chen Cao shuddered for a while, what can he do?

Chen Cao in the confusion has unconsciously walked in the city of Nanjing, the weather in August is a little hot, and the flying fish suit on his body is also a little hot and dazzling, although it is not as good as Beizhen Fusi, but those scoundrels and scoundrels saw Chen Cao, and they all bowed their heads and waists.

'Juxianju'...

Chen Cao looked up at the signboard above his head, and the ghost envoy walked in.

The second child was young, and when he saw the flying fish suit walking in, he was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Yo, I don't know what the chief flag master has to say when he comes to the shop?" To be able to open a shop in Nanjing, a place where there are as many nobles as cattle, has all the eyesight: "Later, the small one will serve you tea." ”

Juxianju, bookstore, sells the most popular books at the moment, and it is also the favorite place for ladies and many scholars in Jinling City, and the best sales and the most prosperous shop in the west of the city.

"I'm sorry if Lord Zongqi comes to collect filial piety, and to tell you the truth, my Juxian Juju is the property of Lord Chaozhong." The shopkeeper walked out from behind the counter and said with a slight mockery.

"Shopkeeper, what's the most popular phrase at the moment?" Chen Cao also ignored the shopkeeper's cold words and looked at it over and over the bookshelf.

You're here to buy books...

The shopkeeper said with a smile on his face: "Lord Haojiao Zongqi knows that the best selling book nowadays is "Wutong Shadow" written by Bai Mengsheng, and basically every lady in Jinling City has a copy. ”

The poetry of the Ming Dynasty was overflowing, and so was the script, everyone stayed at home, and in addition to embroidery, only the book of words could fill the hearts of these underage girls.

"Lord Zongqi wants to buy a copy and go back and take a look?" The shopkeeper asked carefully, as he said, everyone who opened a shop in Jinling City had an official or noble background, and if there was a bullshit high-ranking official behind this short-sighted general flag, he would make trouble for himself.

"Shopkeeper, how do you charge for receiving the call book here?"

Yes?

The shopkeeper thought that he had heard a bad listen, and it wasn't until Chen Cao repeated it once that he realized that his feelings were not here to buy things, so his smiling face changed, and he looked like he was doing business: "Five words and five words, if it sells well, add five more words per thousand words." ”

100,000 words to earn five taels of silver?

Chen Cao shook his head in his heart for a while, then raised his head and said, "I have a good story here, I don't know if the shopkeeper is interested." ”

"Yo, Lord Zongqi also wrote a script?" The shopkeeper looked at Chen Cao with a sneer.

It's not that he looks down on people, but in this era of emphasizing literature and ignoring martial arts, scholars are all privileged classes, but anyone who can read and write, in the fields, they have to call 'Xiaoqi' or 'Gongzi'.

... When I read a book, I have 10,000 volumes, and I write like a god...

But it was said that when the Nuwa clan was refining stones to make up for the sky, they made 36,500 stubborn stones 12 zhang high and 24 zhang square in the Wuji Cliff of the Great Wilderness Mountain. Emperor Nawa only used 36,500 yuan, and only one piece was left unused, and it was discarded under the Qinggang Peak..."

It's not that Chen Cao can remember the whole book of Dream of Red Mansions, but as a lover of history, he always reads the four famous novels or the novels of Gu Daxia or Jin Daxia in his spare time when fishing, and there is a Dream of Red Mansions, a Heaven and Dragon Slayer and a Legend of the Condor Heroes in his spare time.

Chen Cao is confident that these three books will definitely sell him at a good price if they are sold to him in the way of chapter hui novels.

"Brother," Chen Qing trotted into Chen Cao's bedroom, seeing this cheap little girl Chen Cao's head was big, remembering that the last time he almost strangled himself to death, Chen Cao had an urge to destroy flowers with his spicy hands.

"Brother, don't you have to go to the yamen to be on duty?"

Chen Cao also wants to go to Jinyi Wei to pretend to be a big man, the key place is idle, it's really...

"Lord Zongqi can not be used on duty at all, our hundred households, hey, all the hundred households have gone to run the tavern, unless there is something important, the subordinates will definitely notify the adults..."

Chen Cao's first feeling when he remembered the words of his Xiaoqi was that he was being set up, but then he figured it out, like him, there are not 10,000 Jinyi guards in the Ming Dynasty, there are 8,000, it is simply an honorary position, and he usually goes to the hundred households to order a mao, and then he has nothing to do.

Thinking about it, I simply go to the hundred households every day to go through a scene, and then come back to copy the script and make a fortune is the real way, even if the time is not waiting, I can survive if I earn money and sail overseas.

"Brother, you wrote this?" Chen Qing looked at the transcript on the table, stared at it with wide eyes, and then said in surprise: "Brother, what about the back?" What did the county magistrate say? ”

"The county magistrate has an order to strip Chen Qing naked and throw him on the street..."

“...”

... Money empire, make money from the beginning...

Looking at the thirty coins on the table, Chen Cao's first pot of gold in this world, and then remembered the flattering appearance of the shopkeeper when he left, and shook his head with a smile...

'I don't know how the later history books will be written, the author of Dream of Red Mansions is called Nalan Rongruo, ha..."

Unconsciously, the Dream of Red Mansions written by an author named Nalan Rongruo in Jinling City began to become popular in the city, not only the ladies, but even the readers began to chase this kind of chapter back style novel.

"This guy is extremely hateful, Bai Mengsheng doesn't dare to be so appetizing..."

"Chapter Hui style novel, the first of my Ming Dynasty scripts, this Nalan penmanship is indeed pure, and my generation can't hope for it..."

"I read it yesterday by candlelight, but unfortunately there are only eight chapters, which really makes it difficult for me to sleep..."

Mr. Nalan Rongruo, the author of Dream of Red Mansions, who hooked the people of Jinling City and couldn't sleep, was bargaining with Zhou Decai, the shopkeeper of Juxian Residence, who came to the door in person.

"Lord Zongqi, it's good that you are old and compassionate, fifty wen is already the highest price that my store can offer, do you think that my store also has to eat?" Zhou Decai smiled wryly and showed himself as a hard-working worker.

Chen Cao recently learned a new skill, called serving tea to send guests, so in order to show that his literary attainments are high, he also learned the literati set of serving tea and drinking it slowly.

However...

Zhou Decai's culture is not too high, the main purpose of this trip is to urge Chen Cao to update the article quickly, his Juxianju has been blocked several times by the scholars and people who want to read the back story, and there is a housekeeper of the Hou Mansion who personally came to buy the back chapters for his young lady.

Some of them even let out cruel words, if Juxianju doesn't come out with a new chapter, they will smash their shop.

As the so-called law does not blame the public, not to mention that it is a group of scholars who come, where does Zhou Decai have the courage to fight with these people, even if his backstage is on an errand in the Nanjing Ministry, he does not dare to contradict a group of scholars.

Therefore, Chen Cao drank the tea cleanly, and Zhou Decai still didn't move.

"Shopkeeper Zhou? Don't you understand what I mean? Chen Cao thought that he was not clear enough, so he filled the tea and drank it again.

"Oh, my Lord Zongqi, don't drink when you're old, it's important to make money." Zhou Decai was so anxious that he wanted to kneel.

Chen didn't want to drink it anymore, so he put down the teacup and said, "That's it, shopkeeper, business is business, it's called business." ”

Before Chen Cao finished speaking, Zhou Decai interrupted: "Yes, yes, what the chief flag master said is reasonable, I am just a shopkeeper, and there is a boss behind me..."

Chen Cao didn't listen to all the words in the back, but the previous words were clear, this guy was just passing the word, the price must have changed, or he wanted to swallow the difference in the middle, no matter how he said it, Chen was also a traverser, and the financial thick black of the later generations was clear.

"Stop," Chen Cao waved his hand: "Shopkeeper Zhou, it's not that I deliberately raised the price, but according to the price of the goods, I have also inquired about Bai Mengsheng's words, the highest price so far is one hundred and twenty words per thousand words, just take this "Wutong Shadow" Let's say it, you gave one hundred and twenty-five words for one thousand words, plus the bonus after the book was divided into two percent to him, I am right." ”

After hearing Chen Cao say this, Zhou Decai's old face turned red, the weather was cool today, but sweat instantly broke out on this guy's forehead.

"My requirements are very simple, one hundred and fifty words per thousand, and the dividends will be shared, fifty percent is good, so as not to say that I am blackmailing."

"My Chief Banner Master..."Zhou Decai shouted, not that he was unwilling, as Chen Cao guessed, the price given by the owner when he left was no more than 200 Wen, and the bottom line of the dividend sharing was also five or five open, but once he agreed, there were few rebates he could get, not to mention that the popular script was not returned, and Bai Mengsheng's words were not only a hit in a year or two: "Chief Banner Master, I can't help it, you are sitting on the ground and starting the price." ”

"Don't be in a hurry to refuse, do you think about it?" Chen Caoyin looked at Zhou Decai with a smile, and then picked up the teacup and drank tea.

At this time, the old boy seemed to be sensible, stood up, and arched his hand towards Chen Cao: "Mr. Chen, I have taken my leave..."

Looking at the back of Zhou Decai's departure, Chen Cao shouted at the top of his voice: "Shopkeeper Zhou, you go slowly, the next time you come to the door, it won't be a thousand words and a hundred and fifty." ”

Zhou Decai left angrily, and to his surprise, the next day, their old rival, Chengxi Shuxiangfang, released five new chapters at once, and hyped the right of Nalan Rongruo, the author of "Dream of Red Mansions", to authorize them to sell the first thirty chapters.

For a while, the original light business of the book shop suddenly became a market, but the Juxian Residence not far away was crowded.

"Brother, the old housekeeper said that the shopkeeper of Juxianju Zhou came to visit." Chen Qing strode into Chen Cao's bedroom, and then picked up the latest chapters of the two chapters that Chen Cao had just copied and read: "My brother is so literate, it's a pity, our family is a military household, and we can't participate in the scientific examination, otherwise with my brother's literary talent, I will definitely be able to go to high school." ”

Hmph, if your brother writes out the original Caigen Tan, it must be the champion and the first.

Of course, Chen Cao didn't dare to say this, although his sister is underage, but she is sixteen years old, she should have married and had children at this age, and this guy doesn't keep the door open, Chen Cao always thinks that he almost died in her hands, and suddenly has the urge to strangle her to death in the bed.

"Don't look at it first, go and tell the old housekeeper, let that Zhou Decai get out, and if you dare to come again, you will arrest him and go to sit in the yamen of Nanzhen Fusi." Although his own general flag is an empty title, it is also a general flag that has been conferred, and it is still feasible to arrest you as an outsider who trespasses into a private house.

Chen Qingyou, who had been running for a while, ran back quickly, panting and said, "Brother, your old guy said that it wasn't him who wanted to see you, it was their owner who wanted to see you." As he spoke, he put back the teacup in his hand.

"Let you not do things well, run around with an empty teacup."

Chen Cao said a few words to Chen Qing, and then walked out of the door, thinking that since the owner wanted to see him, he naturally had a discussion on the price, although he couldn't get used to this old man, but he couldn't get along with money.

Chen Cao, who walked out of the gate, was also stunned, only to see Zhou Decai's face flushed, lying on the side of the courtyard wall outside his own gate and scratching the courtyard wall vigorously, the wall ash was scratched off a lot, and the sound of nails scratching the wall came and went, Chen Cao could afford goosebumps when he heard it.

"Uncle Chen, did this guy have a seizure?" Chen Cao turned his head to look at the old butler inside the door.

The old housekeeper sneered and said: "Childe doesn't know, just now the young lady took a cup of hot tea and spilled it directly from outside the door, just splashed on the door of the shopkeeper Zhou, and when he left, he said that Gongzi let you splash it." ”

Hiss...

Chen Cao gasped, he had already made up his mind that he had to strip off this underage tonight as a punishment, and then rubbed his hands and smiled: "Shopkeeper Zhou? Shopkeeper Zhou, are you comfortable? If you're comfortable, take me to your host's house as soon as possible, it's all about making money. ”

Poor Zhou Decai, the blood between his fingernails was scratched out, and after turning his head, his face was as red as Guan Erye: "Mr. Chen, a certain family also offended you, why did you order someone to splash me, is this how you treat your business partners?" ”

"Hey, look, shopkeeper Zhou, my little sister is not sensible, are you angry with a little girl? Okay, look at you now, your face is full of red light, and it is not much different from a martial saint. ”

"Ahh

Chen Cao ignored it at all, and then said in a straight voice: "Uncle Chen, you go to Juxianju later, Shopkeeper Zhou scratched the ash of our courtyard wall, this money is counted on their heads, and you can get it when the time comes." ”

"Mr. Chen..."

Chen Cao hurriedly walked to Zhou Decai's side with a smile, stretched out his hand to lead him and said, "Shopkeeper Zhou, don't worry, I mean you are the same as a martial saint, righteous and cloudy..."

“...”

There is an arch in the courtyard of Juxian Ju, behind which is the residence of the owner, as soon as Chen Cao enters the arch, the entire inner courtyard is revealed, which reflects the unusualness of the master's family everywhere, and there is an elegance in the wealth, and with a bit of Confucian culture.

There is a hollow carved gatehouse in front of the entrance hall, there is a partition screen in the gatehouse, the corridor on both sides is erected with carved columns, and the columns are carved with myths, drama stories and unique flower cover decorations, luxurious and elegant, and the ring corridor on the second floor is equipped with the classic 'beauty leaning'.

It is estimated that this style is the description of the high-end atmosphere, but in the eyes of someone Chen, no matter how temperamental the house is, it is only that one.

However, judging from the objects placed in the lobby, the owner of this room should be a woman.

'I hope it's a beautiful woman, um...'

Chen Cao was meditating hard, when footsteps sounded behind the screen, and a young woman wearing a light-colored Suzhou embroidered shirt and a small armor walked into the lobby, and sat on the main seat under the service of the maid behind her.

Ooh...

The face, the cherry mouth, the willow eyebrows, the almond eyes...

'No, no, no... I think it's bad, I've read too many novels', Chen Cao eased his mind, the woman in front of him was extremely elegant, and her cheeks gave people a feeling of relaxation and happiness.

"The owner, this is Chen Cao Chen Zongqi, whose pen name is Nalan Rongruo." Zhou Decai introduced with a smile.

"Yo, Shopkeeper Zhou, why is your face as red as Guan Gong..."The maid beside the woman asked with a smile.

Chen Cao squirted out the tea in his mouth with a 'poof', and then arched his hand towards the woman: "It's rude, it's rude." ”

Zhou Decai was not left and right, and then retreated after arching his hand towards the woman.

"You're so rude..."The other maid looked at Chen Cao with a disgusted expression.

"Xiaochun, don't be rude..."The woman scolded the maid next to her without asking, and then saluted Chen Cao with a smile: "Little girl Li Xiang, I've seen Mr. Nalan." ”

The intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty or the ladies of the people, as long as the people they come into contact with are intellectuals, they will be called by the other party's words or names, and at the moment Li Xiang called Chen Cao Mr. Nalan, first of all, the identities of both parties were determined, I am the boss, you are selling books, that's all.

Chen still understands a thing or two, and then arched his hand and said: "Chen met Boss Li for the first time, and he was very fortunate and very lucky." ”

"The little girl sees that Mr. is young, I don't know how young Mr. is this year?" Li Xiang also asked politely.

"It's only seventeen this year, and I don't dare to ask Mr. Li to be Mr. Li, if Boss Li doesn't dislike it, just call me Chen Cao." Chen Cao is also a self-aware person, but the more brilliant he is in this era, the younger he is, but he can win the love of more women, thinking about how popular the talented Tang Bohu is in Jiangnan.

"Mr. is really young and promising, and he is really talented, but the little girl heard that Mr. Ancestor's ancestor is the general of the Wei State Mansion, I don't know which of Mr.'s mentors is?"

Chen Cao was also shocked in his heart, it turned out that what was written in the novel was true, the background of these people was really powerful, and he checked himself out when they first met.

"After the death of his father in the war, the family was in the middle of the road, even before, the family had no extra money, only went to private school for a period of time, and then became self-taught." Chen Cao's ability to pretend to be a master is completely open in this era: "If it weren't for this, how could you think of selling novels for a living." ”

"Also, Taizu established the country and stipulated that military households are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, otherwise, with Mr. Yi's literary style, it must be natural to be promoted." Li Xiang said tepidly.

Chen Cao understood this sentence, this is a typical way to say that with your Chen someone's literary talent, at most it is just a middle move, and Zhou Decai also said that he was a Jinshi and the first qualification.

'This woman is not simple...'

It was the first time for Chen Cao to suffer this kind of stuffy loss in front of a woman, even if a woman was powerful in that society in later generations, as soon as she went in and took out the money, wouldn't that be obedient?

Thinking of this, Chen Cao quickly changed the topic and said, "I think Boss Li didn't call Chen here today to simply chat." ”

"Well," Li Xiang nodded and said: "It's really rude, then let's talk about this 'Dream of Red Mansions', this chapter hui style novel written by Mr. is rich and exciting, and now in Jinling City, except for my Juxian Residence, there is only the Book Fragrance Workshop in serialization, and the shopkeeper Zhou did not negotiate with Mr. before, I don't know what kind of price this 'Dream of Red Mansions' will be offered in Mr.'s heart?" ”

Finally got to the point, Chen Cao nodded with a smile and said: "Well, business, it's still an old saying, there is business to have, although Chen debuted later than Bai Mengsheng, he thinks that his novel is better than Bai Mengsheng, so this price, of course, is higher than before." ”

As he spoke, he compared his hand to a slap: "Five hundred words in a thousand words, dividends are shared, and it is still five or five open." ”

"You are so uninteresting, a young boy actually opened his mouth widely, and Bai Mengsheng has a maximum of one hundred and twenty-five words and a bonus of two percent, who do you think you are?" The maid named Koharu immediately opened her mouth and scolded.

Li Xiang didn't interrupt immediately, obviously Xiaochun's words were also what she wanted to say, but because of her identity, she naturally wouldn't say it blatantly.

"Koharu, Hugh is rude." Li Xiang waited for Xiaochun to finish speaking, then waved his hand to stop him: "Since Mr. has offered this price, he must have extraordinary self-confidence, so he might as well say it, let's listen to whether it is reasonable or not." ”