At the banquet, Xu Xian, with his identity as the head of the Three Emperors Patriarch Association, shook his clothes and sat on the chairman, making Jin Shengjie, who was sitting in the second seat, stare dryly.

During the banquet, he talked with the owner of Liao Garden about the publication of the book, and Liao Qiu agreed, saying that there was no problem with the publication, but he didn't dare to guarantee how it would be sold.

Xu Xian said: "I don't take dividends for this book, I just hope that the owner of Liao Gardener will try to keep the price as low as possible, so that it can be widely spread." "Medical books can't be too popular, instead of competing for these profits, it's better to put down this piece of the surname.

Liao Qiu was a little puzzled, "Then Gongzi Xu, why do you want to compile this book?" Xu Xian's literary name has been spread all over the world, even if he adds a medical book, it is not the icing on the cake, but it will give people a feeling of not doing their job.

Xu Xian smiled, but he just smiled and didn't answer. The purpose of the speech at the Three Emperors Patriarch Association is to mobilize the atmosphere, and if you see a person, you will pull and say that you plan to hang a pot to help the world and purify all sentient beings, it is really embarrassing and too hypocritical. But other than that, there really wasn't any other reason to change the subject and talk about the drama.

Liao Qiu also changed the topic, and when he talked about opera novels, he immediately became gushing.

What surprised Xu Xian was that the magazine novels in this world had a lot of foundation. In the previous life, the "Tang poems, Song poems, Yuan songs, Ming and Qing novels", which should have bloomed in different eras, were in full bloom in this Great Xia Dynasty.

Think about what you have seen through the present, the prosperity of the culture of this dynasty, the development of the atmosphere, and the generosity of grace are more than the so-called "prosperous Tang Dynasty" in history.

Just along the way to the novel, there are already many literati who are working on it, and it is printed and distributed by different bookstores in China. Under their respective banners, there are actually some honorary authors in the sea, but most of them are written by scholars who have failed in the imperial examination. Their income depends on the sales of their books, and some of them even earn a lot of money.

And Liao Qiu is only one of many authors, but his Buyi Bookstore is the largest bookstore in the world.

At this time, there were only three ways for scholars who failed in the imperial examination, one was to join the official eunuch as a staff member and become the legendary master. The second is to open a school and be a man who teaches and educates people. The third is to run a business and be a businessman. But when the staff has to go through the door, the school can only make a living, and it takes the capital to run a business. If you don't have any of that, maybe you can make a novel.

Xu Xian couldn't help but feel moved when he heard this, he happened to be in some financial embarrassment recently, since Baicaotang hired many people, although Xu Xian was free to concentrate on compiling books, but it made an extra expense, and now it is basically maintained at no loss or profit. But perhaps because it was founded by Xu Xian, although he has not been seen in the pharmacy for a long time, he can also make a lot of merit from it.

However, compiling a book is to constantly invest money to buy medicinal materials, experimental prescriptions, paper, pen and ink, artificial oil lamps, which do not cost money. Although each item is not too big, but when summed up, it really costs money like flowing water, and the thousands of taels of silver have bottomed out in just over a month, although there are some places that can be saved, but Xu Xian does not want to affect the quality of the whole book for the sake of silver. As soon as I met Jin Shengjie, I asked about the sea boat, which was really difficult!

Although the Jin family's shipload can bring him millions of income, it can't save the burning fire from far water at the moment. I can't tell these things to others, for fear that it will affect the positive surname of everyone's book, and I don't want my sister to worry about herself, so I can only think about it in my heart.

In the world, only by taking on these things can we know that it is not easy to be a human being. But now this way has opened Xu Xian's eyes again, there is no need to make any glass, as long as he sits at home and writes out many classical masterpieces he saw in his previous life, wouldn't they all be exchanged for money.

Xu Xian said: "I recently made a repertoire, I plan to write it for the owner of the garden to refer to in detail, if the owner can, I want to sell it to you at a price." "The effect of the novel is too slow, so it's better to just move out a few yuan songs and sell them to the person in front of you.

Liao Qiu shook his head and said: "Young Master Xu, it's not a contemptible person who says big things, it's not easy to make music, and you can't make music if you can do poetry." Let's just say that your poems are famous all over the world, I will naturally be amazed when I see them, but if you say it to ordinary people, most people can't understand it, and the repertoire is about elegance and vulgarity......"

When it comes to his own expertise, he can't help but talk about it again. In his eyes, although Xu Xian's song is good, it is also a famous master's skills. But casually saying that he wants to make a song inevitably thinks that his line of work is too simple. is even more disdainful of Xu Xian's statement that he is waiting for the price to sell.

Xu Xian knew that what he said was indeed true, even if Li Bai was alive, he might not be able to write a touching opera. But behind him, there is not only Li Bai standing alone, but the essence of 5,000 years of traditional culture. Yes, he is not alone, at this moment, Li Taibai bowed down and withdrew, and Guan Hanqing's soul possessed - a man known as Chinese Shakespeare.

Xu Xian smiled slightly, interrupting Liao Qiu and said, "The opera I want to do is called "Dou E's Injustice". ”

Xu Xian still remembers the introduction of "Dou E's Injustice" that he learned in middle school in his previous life: "One of the top ten tragedies in China, Guan Hanqing's most prestigious masterpiece, was translated into English in 1838 and is still circulating. It is a famous drama with extremely high cultural value and a wide public base, and about 86 types of dramas have been staged in this play. ”

Although in modern times, traditional Chinese culture has gradually been replaced by Western culture, and petty bourgeoisie would rather use English to memorize a few lines of "Hamlet" to pretend to be forced, rather than look through what their ancestors left behind, this is not a failure of culture itself, just as the school insists on learning English that is useless to most people, nor does it mean that Chinese is inferior to English.

This is the failure of the country, and it is the helpless bowing of the weak. It makes us feel that spending hundreds of dollars to sit in a decorative opera house and listen to an opera that we don't understand is more elegant than listening to an old man in the park singing an erhu: "This is not a river, it is the blood of heroes that has been shed for 20 years!" Whoever touches us, only our own hearts understand. If even this little bit of emotion disappears, what will be left of the toddlers in Handan?

At least in some ways, we don't have to look down, we don't have to learn. You don't have to rely on foreigners to flaunt the Chinese, you can point to "Hamlet" and say, "The author of this book claims to be the British Kwan Hanqing." ”

Some things should be lowered to learn, some things should be communicated on an equal footing, and some things might as well straighten their waists, pat their chests and say, "This is ours." And "the stones of other mountains can attack jade" is certainly not wrong, but if the value of jade has to be measured by the standard of stone everywhere, it can only be contemptible and ridiculous.

Xu Xian couldn't help but think that in this world, there would probably be no Yuan, none of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, but there will definitely be some other equally good or even better cultural works that will shine on future generations. He is like a visitor from another dimension, carrying the essence of the culture of that world, and it would be hypocritical to say that he wants to "spread culture", and now he only wants to come back in exchange for a little money and finish the medical book.

Later, Xu Xiantong used some of the lyrics to talk to Liao Qiu about the general content of "Dou E's Injustice". Of course, some things related to the dynasty have all been changed, and they have all been changed to the previous dynasty. However, there are not many related things in it, so it does not affect the context of the whole text.

The chairman sat on the local gentry in Suzhou, and only Chen Zhifu, Xu Xian, and Liao Qiu were outsiders, and Chen Zhifu was naturally the stars holding the moon, although some people wanted to talk to Xu Xian and Liao Qiu, but the two of them were chatting hotly, but they couldn't interject in their mouths, and gradually they couldn't take care of them, but let them fall quiet. And Governor Chen didn't want to have too much communication with Xu Xian, seeing this scene, his heart was much more relaxed.

Liao Qiu listened to what Xu Xian said, and didn't care at first, but the more he listened, the brighter his eyes became, and he was slowly brought into the world of the song, and then he was angry and happy.

Waiting for Xu Xian to whisper to the ** of the whole book, "There is the moon hanging in the morning and twilight, and there are ghosts and gods who hold the power of life and death." Heaven and earth can only distinguish between the clear and turbid, but how can they be confused and prolonged? Those who are good suffer from poverty and have a shorter life, and those who create evil enjoy wealth and longevity. Heaven and earth are also afraid of being hard and bullying the soft, but they are also pushing the boat so smoothly! The earth is also, you don't distinguish between good and bad, and what is the earth! Heaven and earth, you are wrong to be virtuous and foolish! Hey, only two tears and ripples fell. ”

Liao Qiu couldn't help but beat the lyrics along with the lyrics, with both admiration and sadness on his face. Praise the essence of this song and the words, and lament the misfortune of the characters in the song. It wasn't until Xu Xian said that Dou E had been wronged and Zhaoxue that it gradually flew up again. The people at the table looked sideways again and again, and he was immersed in the world of the song.

Wait until Xu Xian finished chanting the last sentence: "Today, I will correct the document again, and Fang Xian's Wang family law will not make the people wronged." "When Dou E was wronged.

Liao Qiu slapped his thigh and said, "Okay!" The voice was loud, and the hall was silent, and everyone looked at it together. Liao Qiu didn't care about it, and took Xu Xian's hand with excitement on his face and said: "Xu Gongzi, no, Xu Xian's nephew, no, virtuous brother and virtuous brother, it's really a thousand words, a thousand gold!

Xu Xian still underestimated the lethality of this song "Dou E's Injustice" to Liao Qiu, or today's people underestimated the feelings of the ancients about this classic. coughed twice, patted Liao Qiu's shoulder and reminded, "Master Liao." ”

Only then did Liao Qiu come back to his senses, and first saluted the prefect, and said, "Prefect, if you lose your temper after drinking, don't hope to bear with me." God knows that he sat down since he was seated, but he drank a few glasses with the crowd, but at the moment his face was full of red light, and he really looked like he was drunk.

Governor Chen said: "It's okay, it's okay, let's continue!"

The banquet continued, but Liao Qiu said to Xu Xian: "Brother Xian, let's talk outside!" Xu Xian naturally had nothing to do, and the two of them went outside the hall under the pretext of going to the toilet.

Jin Shengjie sat in the second seat, watching the two walk out, and his heart was really complicated. This Liao Qiu is also a generation of writers, and he is very arrogant, and he has met Xu Xian for less than half an hour, and he doesn't know what spell Xu Xian has cast. At the age of dozens of years, he actually took Xu Xian's hand and shouted, "Virtuous brother and virtuous brother". And for himself, when he is polite, he is called Jin Ergongzi, and when he is not polite, he is called Jin Erzi. I don't understand, I don't understand.

Xu Xian and Liao Qiu came outside the house, and Liao Qiu first made a bow respectfully and said, "If there is no king in the world, you can get this wonderful song." ”

This is the real "convincing", not relying on power or violence, but taking out the best things to show the most proficient people, which is the feeling of a first-class poet when facing Li Bai Du Fu. Even if Xu Xian had already done those countless nouns and sentences, he could only make Liao Qiu admire and admire. And now it is enough to rely on the song "Dou E's Injustice", because Liao Qiu is facing the "Qu Sheng" Guan Hanqing.

Xu Xian returned the salute and said with a smile: "It's still in the eyes of the law, I don't know how much it can be sold for?"

Liao Qiu raised a finger and said, "One thousand taels." Xu Xian was slightly disappointed, but he also felt that it was almost the same, after all, he didn't spend much effort, and a thousand taels of silver was a lot. was about to agree, but Liao Qiu continued: "Gold." ”

Xu Xian was surprised, although he didn't know the current ratio of gold and silver, but it was definitely more than one to ten, this Liao Qiu could take out more than 10,000 taels of silver to buy a song, and he was really rich and noble. But I don't know that music is different from poetry, and no matter how good poetry is, it is difficult to have commercial value.

The song is different, Liao Qiu's family class performs once in a wealthy family, and the income is no less than hundreds of gold, and it is mainly based on rewards. The ups and downs of its income are all in the quality of the performance, and the value of a good repertoire script is naturally extraordinary.

Liao Qiu noticed Xu Xian's expression, and said with a smile: "The ancients bought the Fu with their daughters, and the virtuous brother's "Dou E's Injustice" is not inferior to "Changmen Fu"?" When the passion of the literati cooled down, he had already begun to estimate the actual benefits that this piece could bring him. can come up with such a price, and it is also intended to win over Xu Xian. It is a gimmick to buy music for a daughter, and with the help of Xu Xian's own literary name, she is not afraid that she will not be able to recover the capital.

"Daughter buys Fu" is an allusion in the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up his cousin Gillian as the queen, Empress Chen did not give birth to a son for ten years, jealous of Wei Zifu's concubine giving birth to a son, was beaten into the "Changmen Palace", and lost her favor. She sent a thousand gold and asked Sima Xiangru to write a "Changmen Fu" for herself, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty loved her again after reading it. It also proves that the value of anything lies in what it actually does.

The price was agreed, and Xu Xian also breathed a sigh of relief, in this way, the compilation of books can support it for a long time. As a discount, Liao Qiu also promised that after Xu Xian's medical book was completed, he would publish it without charging a penny. But I hope that no matter what repertoire novels he has in the future, they will be given priority to him.

Xu Xian nodded and said, "No problem, I just planned to write a novel." ”

Liao Qiu was also a little looking forward to it, Xu Xian's poems, lyrics, and songs are so outstanding, what kind of standard will the novel be?

Xu Xian said: "It is a historical novel of the Three Kingdoms period, there should be many readers!" In fact, almost every Chinese is a reader of this novel, even if they have not read the original work, they will be affected by it in other ways.

At the end of the banquet, Liao Qiu asked Xu Xian to take a little, and he explained his family class - he would start singing in the afternoon. took the silver ticket again, but he wanted to go back to Baicao Garden with Xu Xian, and asked him to quickly hand over the text to him, so that he could go back and start rehearsals.

Xu Xian said: "The draft has not been completed yet, otherwise it is better to wait for tomorrow!"

Liao Qiu said: "Anyway, it's still early today, why don't I go to the house and wait, and the virtuous brother quickly writes it." He also had the idea of helping Xu Xian revise the words and sentences.

Xu Xian had no choice but to respond, today the prefect has a full moon, and the Three Emperors Patriarch will also have a day off. Anyway, sooner or later, I'm going to write it, so let's write it! I met Jin Shengjie again, and I also went over to join in the fun, wanting to see Xu Xian's new work.

The three of them went to Xu's study. Liao Qiu and Jin Shengjie waited on the side, Xu Xian only cared about writing, and every night Xu Xian wrote, the two passed on to each other. Liao Qiu looked at it again and again, but felt that he couldn't add a word, so he had to be an audience with peace of mind.

And Jin Shengjie finally understood why Liao Qiu called Xu Xian a virtuous brother, looking at the back of his hard work, he said in his heart: Could it be that you are a Wenqu star, and this kind of thing that cannot be on the table can write this kind of masterpiece. Who dares to call a genius in front of you?

Xu Xian's pen walked the dragon and snake, didn't care about the handwriting, only made a line of writing, fortunately, the number of words in the whole song was not much, and when it was dark, he finally finished writing the whole text, and also earned 15,000 taels of silver. originally wanted to stay with Liao Qiu for dinner, but he couldn't wait to take the lyrics and let his famous characters sing it. Before parting, he said that when the song was completed, he asked Xu Xian to come over and enjoy it.

Bai Suzhen cooked the meal, and Xu Xian left Jin Shengjie for dinner, telling these interesting stories about coming to Suzhou. Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen sat together, although they were sisters and brothers, but in Jin Shengjie's eyes, they were like male and female hosts. Looking closely, the two of them are really husband and wife, and they can't help but sigh a few more times in their hearts.

After sending Jin Shengjie away, Xu Xian talked to Bai Suzhen about today's happy event, and the funds for compiling the book have been settled again.

Bai Suzhen was naturally happy for him, but she was slightly unhappy, and Xu Xian asked why.

Bai Suzhen said: "I asked you a few days ago, but you just didn't say it. You and I are one and the same, but we don't consult with me when we encounter problems. ”

Xu Xian hurriedly apologized and promised never to do it again. teased her, and then smiled again: "One heart is one heart, but it has not been one." ”

Bai Suzhen's face turned red, and she said, "If you want to come to one, come to one! She understood Xu Xian's weakness, so she said this. But after speaking, I felt a little shy, got up and packed up the dishes and chopsticks, and walked outside. Seeing where Xu Xian was still sitting, he couldn't help but smile and walked out of the door.

Xu Xian was still a little stunned, as if she was being teased by her!

On the second day, Xu Xian announced loudly in the temple of the Three Emperors Patriarch: "Yesterday, I discussed with Lord Liao Yuan about publishing the book, and his cloth book company will print this book for free and distribute it all over the world. When the time comes, your names will be on it. ”

Everyone cheered, although Xu Xian said that he would guarantee the issuance, but after all, every quasi-letter was not. Now that I have this guarantee, I can't help but work harder. And in more than a month, they have invested countless efforts, and they have already recognized the medical book they are compiling, and they have great self-confidence, treating it as their own children.

As soon as Xu Xian was sitting in the hall, he suddenly reported that there was a person outside the door who claimed to be his teacher.

(To be continued)