Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

Zhao Zhen didn't know that his little wife was worrying about giving him a wedding gift.

While waiting for the Ministry of Rites to prepare for the big wedding, it was not appropriate for him to meet with Mrs. Guo, and miraculously had some leisure time, so he was concerned about another matter.

As a result, the new servant who had just been promoted suddenly became busy.

In fact, the officials are thin-skinned, embarrassed to expose their little private hobbies in front of too many people, and really remember it, so they naturally focus on this new face.

After a lot of kindness and coercion, Zhao Zhen made sure that the other party's mouth was strict enough, and began to provoke that person frequently with peace of mind.

But in the eyes of other servants full of envy and jealousy, the new servant who got this green eye was suffering beyond words, and became visibly thinner.

The errands assigned to him by the officials every time are in fact always the same.

That is to let him go out of the palace, go shopping in various bookstores, and every time he has to ask the storekeeper himself if there is any book written by Liu Yuanyuan, about the happy enemy between Liu Niangzi and Lu Sanyuan A new storybook of interesting stories.

But Liu Yuanyuan didn't write a new work at all, even if he asked three times a day, he wouldn't conjure it out of thin air!

Every time he returned empty-handed, he had to watch the officials go from hopeful to completely disappointed, and it was like this every day... It was hard for him not to feel tormented.

Although Liuyuanyuan is only a name, many loyal readers of the storybook clearly know that the real author is Liu Sanbian who composed words in three steps and composed music in seven steps.

Even Liu Qi, who at first just chose a nickname to vent the grievances that the old man was teased and left behind by the little Taotie, just to write some whimsical stories, never expected... Now this 'Liu Yuanyuan' 'The reputation is not much inferior to his name.

Of course, it also has something to do with the fact that he often gathers with colleagues who work in the pavilion, and he has followed Lu Ci's repeated exhortations in the past, and he no longer easily accepts invitations from singing girls, and writes casually erotic words to highlight his social status.

The many poems written by Yu Yaji always get unanimous praise from scribes, which makes his reputation steadily rise and at the same time maintains a good reputation.

But elegance and vulgarity have always been difficult to appreciate, and Liu Ci's "singing rate" in the market is inevitably inferior to that in the period of history that Lu Ci knows.

On the contrary, Liu Yuanyuan, Liu Qi's pseudonym specially created for nonsense, in just a few years, has accumulated a large number of loyal readers with the help of those twelve scripts, and was even stolen by some immeasurable bookstores. Pirated, sold to other states and counties, and made huge profits from it.

Readers in other places believe this to be true. They are worried about Liu Niangzi, an infatuated woman, and can't help but lament that Lu Sanyuan, a flirtatious vagabond, will win her heart. Extremely.

On the other hand, readers in the capital, knowing that these are purely made up, are also attracted by the wonderful plot and the fluent writing that is deliberately simplified.

Even the boudoir girls who seldom go out, such as the first-class noble girls of the Guo family, are attracted by this script, and secretly send maids to buy it to read.

It's just that Liu Yuanyuan is very hateful. After easily arousing their appetite, they have always been lazy for three days fishing and two days drying nets.

There is no rule at all when launching new storybooks: sometimes three or four books are published a year, and sometimes two books are barely released a year, and they are delayed until the end of the year.

What they don't know is that Liu Yuanyuan's diligence is completely determined by how "angry" the protagonist Lu Sanyuan is.

Once Lu Ci deflates Liu Qi, as a small revenge, Wen Siquan's Liu Yuanyuan will come out of the arena again, making a new story that Lu Ci has no choice but makes the fans feel like a treasure.

To the dissatisfaction of some people in central Beijing, Liu Yuanyuan was extremely lazy last year. After publishing a book in July, there was no further movement.

Now that the year has passed, seeing winter go to spring and more and more people go outing, why didn't he start writing?

Liu Qi didn't know that so many people were full of complaints. The reason why he stopped writing for such a long time was not because Lu Ci stopped being angry and made him lack inspiration, but because he was too busy and had no time to spare.

Just running around for the matter of going to Qinzhou has already exhausted all his energy outside of his post in the embassy. Where is the time to write a new storybook?

Liu Qi really didn't understand how Xiao Taotie, who was promoted to a fourth-rank court official, applied for a foreign post so smoothly, and recently even Zhudi was able to take away with him.

When it was his turn, why was it so difficult?

People say that it is difficult to enter Beijing, but they did not say that it is so difficult to get out of Beijing!

Since the day Liu Qi watched Zhu Shuo leave, she has not stopped running here and there, and she even dared to ask a literary friend who is qualified to be promoted to help pass me a memorial, and say a few words, so that Facilitate this for him.

As a result, after a few months, all of his efforts were like nothing, without any results.

The friends readily agreed, and indeed helped a lot, but the result was unsatisfactory.

——Where is the problem?

Liu Qi's head turned gray with worry, she couldn't figure it out.

If I let him know that my running around has had the opposite effect, I'm afraid I'll be so annoyed that I'll bang my head against the wall: Seeing that Liu Sanbian, who has always thought about it, is going to go out of Beijing, and why? He had to run to the border, and those literary friends who loved his poems were all terrified.

The frontier area is a dangerous place where war drums are beating and smoke is rising at any time. It is a dangerous place for generals to fight to the death, earn fame, and defend their home and country.

Where can a talented and meticulous literati like Liu Qi go?

Seeing that he was determined to leave, it made them feel like they were facing a big enemy. They got together in private to discuss several times, and quickly reached an agreement, deciding to keep this matter a secret from the outside world, and stop it for as long as they can.

Of course, Liu Qi couldn't be told to see the flaws, so he had to unify his voice and deal with it well.

Liu Qi, on the other hand, learned from the painful experience. After pondering for many days, he finally became cruel and asked people everywhere to help him hand over the paperwork the next day.

The friend who was entrusted by him happened to be one of the people who secretly obstructed his goal, so he felt a guilty conscience and had no despicable thoughts of peeping.

In his opinion, no matter how earnest Liu Qi's words were, the situation was completely different from Zhang Kang's.

The officials who just had a headache for letting Zhang Kang go, it is absolutely impossible to allow him to mess around.

Sure enough, just opening Liu Qi's booklet, the officials who were secretly anxious for Liu Yuanyuan's new storybook, which had been waiting for half a year and hadn't heard anything, were immediately annoyed.

Alright, one wave just flattened and another wave rose again, even Liu Qi came to join in the fun, insisting on abandoning literature and joining the army?

Zhao Zhen snorted angrily.

Why do you think about what you have and what you don't have all day long, how do you not know how to be sympathetic to the poor people in the capital who have nothing to say, and then do something serious!

It's really outrageous to just focus on imitating the way of the little master!

Zhao Zhen sulked secretly, and severely criticized the word 'nonsense' on Liu Qi's sincere and beautiful memorial, and was about to send it away, but couldn't hold back, took it back and turned to the next page , and added a few more words 'don't even think about it', and then waved happily to send the servant away.

Liu Qi didn't expect to get the news so soon, and when he opened it expectantly, he was poured cold water on his head by the bright red command.

However, after dealing a heavy blow to Liu Qi, Zhao Zhen still felt that it was not enough. In order to fundamentally solve the problem, he sent someone to invite this whimsical talent into the palace.

Directly ordering Liu Qi to quickly write a new storybook as Liu Yuanyuan would obviously not work.

With Liu Qi's eccentric temper, whether he will be obedient or not is still the same thing. What's worse, if it gets out and the officials know about it, he will be criticized a lot, and even Liu Qi will not be able to escape. robbery.

During the period of waiting for Liu Qi to come over, Zhao Zhen pondered for a while with a straight face, his eyes glanced at the surrounding bookcases, and a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared.

——Yes.

When Liu Qi, who couldn't hide his depression, came to the palace sullenly, just after finishing the salute absent-mindedly, when he raised his head, he was facing the royal case.

When she saw some very familiar books placed on the imperial case openly, Liu Qi's eyes, which were originally empty and lost, suddenly froze.

What did he just see?

Liu Qi's eyes widened in disbelief.

How could those funny things appear here!

Liu Qi didn't realize it at first, but when he took a closer look in disbelief, he was sure that the pile was exactly the same as the Liuyuanyuan scripts he knew, no matter whether it was the covers or the thickness, and most importantly, the titles...

He blinked repeatedly involuntarily.

Seeing that he had already understood this 'hint', Zhao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, his face still calm and composed, he turned his eyes away from the shocked counterpart who almost thought he was in a dream, and slowly spoke the words of the scene: "Regarding this matter, Jingzhuang don't want to mention it again..."

Although his tone was relaxed, Zhao Zhen's mind was firm.

Three years have passed, and it's a pity that he tried his best, but he still couldn't call back the reluctant little master, how could he let another one go?

Don't even think about it.

What the official said next, Liu Qi's mind was in chaos, and he didn't listen at all.

He thanked En and left the palace like sleepwalking, from returning to Lu's house to sitting in front of the case, he still hasn't recovered.

It took some time before Liu Qi showed a sudden realization.

No wonder it never worked.

With the officials standing in the way, if he can succeed, then he will be in hell!

——Three days later, the little emperor, who had been waiting for a long time, finally looked forward to Liu Yuanyuan's new work.

Satisfied, he sent someone to send a copy to Mrs. Guo, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and calmly finished handling the government affairs of the day.

He waited until the night was quiet before retreating from the servants, and enjoying the rare moment of relaxation with peace of mind.

He couldn't bear to read it too fast, he read most of the stick of incense, and just finished half of it.

However, when Zhao Zhen saw that Mrs. Liu, who had an awkward temper, finally reconciled with Lu Sanyuan, who rarely opened her heart, and was about to live a happy life with red sleeves and honey, the enthusiastic uncle surnamed Zhao intervened , I was stunned to send a beautiful-looking, gentle-tempered woman surnamed Zhu, and when there was another turmoil on the flat ground... the gratified smile unconsciously hanging on the corner of his mouth also froze instantly.

After reading it, Zhao Zhen felt unsatisfied, but couldn't help worrying about the next plot, and even more wanted to catch the naughty and bold Liu Qi to beat him.

How can you blatantly stab someone like this!

For such offenses, you must not let them go easily.

——Just fine Liu Yuanyuan to write a few more scripts a year.

Zhao Zhen thought happily.

The author has something to say: Zhao Zhen: Are you thinking about peach

Lu Ci: Thank you, the official family, for helping me a lot.