[Red Chamber] Buddhist concubine

Because of the shopkeeper's proposal, Zhou Yao was already interested in the business of the teahouse. Even if the shopkeeper used the reason that she would take the dividends from the teahouse, he would directly hand over the manuscript they liked to her for revision without paying a penny. Will refuse, let alone give her money now?

Zhou Yao agreed without hesitation.

The next day, the shopkeeper gave Qingliu some of the manuscripts they liked, and brought them to Zhou Yao.

Zhou Yao counted carefully, and found that the manuscripts that the shopkeeper asked Qingliu to hand over were not too many, only ten——

The number of ten copies is usually a lot, but it seems a bit pitiful now that a huge reward has been offered for a month.

More than half of these ten stories are imitations of "The Widow" and "Lu Sheng".

Although there are no large areas of similarity, but in the case of similar writing, the general trend of the storyline is not much different, only the identity or occupation of the hero or heroine has changed, which really makes Zhou Yao feel a little subtle.

Although she knew it was normal, she still put these stories aside.

Although the rest of the writing is very similar to Zhou Yao's, the story itself is completely independent and novel enough.Zhou Yao's eyes lit up when she saw it, and she immediately began to study hard.

But soon, she knew what mistakes the authors of these stories made——

The biggest feature of web articles is that they cut to the point at the beginning, have a big brain hole, and the plot is novel and fast-paced.

And the brains and plots of these four stories are among the best even in modern times. Although the pace is not fast enough, they can make up for this deficiency with their good literary talents.

There is only one thing that has become the shortcoming of their story——

Of these four stories, a lot of settings are piled up in the beginning, which makes people feel boring after reading it.If Zhou Yao hadn't believed in the shopkeeper's vision and knew that what he selected must be high-quality goods, otherwise Zhou Yao, who is used to modern web articles quickly cutting to the point, might not be able to continue reading, and naturally missed this good story;

The modification proposed by Zhou Yao is to directly cut off all the settings.

Although this story is very novel, the story itself is not the kind of modern fantasy novel that needs to create a world framework by itself. Many settings are completely redundant and take up space.

Zhou Yao suspected that the author wanted to use the number of words to cheat the bounty——

Who told the bounty to be paid according to the word count?

The second story is better and more novel than the first one. This story even allows Zhou Yao to see the prototype of the theme of time travel.

However, the starting point for this story is not quite right.

The author wrote a story that is very novel for this day and age.I don't know if it was inspired by Zhou Yao, but this story is obviously based on Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring.He wrote a series of ridiculous stories about a scholar who accidentally broke into Taohuayuan, and then had a series of ironic stories with the adherents of the Qin Dynasty in Taohuayuan.

The story is really novel, but the author has not cut to the chase.

The shopkeeper gave her a manuscript of more than 4 words to revise, but the first [-] words were all about the various oppression and injustice encountered by the scholar in real life.

Zhou Yao was very annoyed when she saw it: At first, she always thought, the hero, you should hurry up and slap your face, are you aggrieved by being bullied all the time?

However, until the end, the hero did not slap his face and counterattack, but entered the Peach Blossom Spring on the way to escape.Afterwards, just like the story of Peach Blossom Spring, the male lead received a warm reception, and the male lead immediately felt that Peach Blossom Spring was really a fairyland like Tao Yuanming said.

Then, he wasn't ready to go.

Zhou Yao: "..." I can't wait to drag the hero out and beat him to death!

Zhou Yao made a drastic move and directly deleted all the first [-] words of the story——

Since the hero does not intend to leave Taohuayuan in the future, why write so many modern stories?Frustrate readers?

Zhou Yao shook her head and looked at the third story.

The author of the third story is relatively more conservative, but also wiser.He didn't use allusions, nor did he intend to innovate, but directly wrote a joke about Cao Cao.

Yes, the protagonist of the story is Cao Cao.

Zhou Yao could tell that the author had learned history very well, and his literary accomplishment was also good.Although it is a joke about Cao Cao, all the historical events in it are involved, but the characters in the story are somewhat humorous and cute——

In modern terms, it is down to earth.

Yes, the author wrote a joke that all the characters in the story of Cao Cao have their smart and brave side, but at the same time, they also have many shortcomings that make people laugh and cry.

Some are afraid of their wives, some are obsessed with swords, some are road-crazy, and some have facial paralysis...

In short, the characters in "Joking about Cao Cao" are particularly brilliant.

Because the story she wrote was historically oriented, even if the story written by the author also had the shortcoming of not being quick and clear, Zhou Yao didn't care at all.But this story also has one of the biggest shortcomings, that is, the words are half literal and half white.

Zhou Yao can see that the author really wants to write straightforward and popular, and it is best for everyone to understand what the characters in it say, but he can't let go of his figure, so in many key places, He simply used classical Chinese.

Yes, classical Chinese is not vernacular, nor is it the semi-vernacular that is popular in writing scripts and novels nowadays.

Maybe the shopkeeper and Mr. He have read a lot of literary classics, so when they saw these contents, they didn't realize that this was wrong.But the overall style was inconsistent, but the two felt it, otherwise Zhou Yao would not let Zhou Yao modify it.

However, the author's story, she has no way to modify——

In classical Chinese, there may be more than a dozen interpretations for a word, and how to interpret it depends on the specific context. However, if the interpretation is wrong, the meaning of the entire sentence may be completely opposite to the original intention.

Most of Zhou Yao's knowledge of classical Chinese has been returned to the teacher, so she dare not write rashly.

But it’s not bad, so you can’t get the money to change the text?Zhou Yao thought for a while, and simply drew a red line under all the classical Chinese, and then marked it on the title page, asking the author to translate it into vernacular.

It took Zhou Yao half a day to edit these three books.She still had to write tomorrow's update, so she didn't read any other stories.

In the early morning of the next day, Qingliu handed over the three revised stories and Zhou Yao's manuscript to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper first read the latest content of "Lu Sheng".

Because in the previous chapter, it was written that Lu Sheng found out that his boss was corrupt and harmed the people under him, so he did not hesitate to bet his life to plead for the people. Unexpectedly, the servants around Lu Sheng had been bought by corrupt officials. The plot of the letter.

And this chapter follows the previous chapter, which wrote that Lu Sheng did not change his face when confronted by corrupt officials, and fought wits and courage with him, and finally convinced him of Lu Sheng's loyalty, and then directly beat and killed the young man who betrayed the master, successfully. delay.

When the corrupt officials came back, they realized that Lu Sheng had already run away.

However, the halo of the protagonist has always existed, and Lu Sheng met a confidant who he thought was very eloquent during his escape. After exchanging information several times, Lu Sheng finally couldn't help confiding to him the hateful deeds of corrupt officials and common people.

Then, when the two met again, the confidant changed suddenly and became the imperial envoy who came to investigate corrupt officials.

Although Lu Sheng was surprised, he still handed over the evidence he had collected to the imperial envoy without changing his face, and successfully knocked down the corrupt officials and sent them to prison.

The shopkeeper's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands again and again.

His voice quickly attracted other guests in the teahouse.

The shopkeeper realized that he had lost his composure, so he hurriedly bowed his hands and apologized, turning the matter over.

On the other hand, Mr. He, who was resting next to him, saw Qingliu, and immediately understood why the shopkeeper suddenly lost his composure, and then went directly to the shopkeeper regardless of him being the next storyteller.

The shopkeeper didn't say much, and directly handed the manuscript of "Lu Sheng" to Mr. He.

As for himself, he picked up the three stories revised by Zhou Yao and began to read them carefully.

"Miss Qingliu, the handwriting on this manuscript seems to be different from the original?" The shopkeeper was a little puzzled.

Qingliu was a little embarrassed: "Mr. was so forgetful when he was flipping through these scriptures that he actually started to revise the original manuscript. When he came back to his senses, Mr. realized that something was wrong, so he asked his servants to copy it out. once."

She pointed to the content of the story, "This is the content that I specially hired a literate boy to help transcribe, and the revisions and annotations are still my handwriting."

Although the shopkeeper wondered why Yu Menghonglou didn't want to let his handwriting be leaked, it was not important after all, so he quickly left it behind.

The first thing he read was the story "Joking about Cao Cao".

Then on the title page, he saw Zhou Yao's message.

"Translate into vernacular?" The shopkeeper blinked, continued to scroll backwards, and then saw the content marked with a red line.He suddenly realized: "I said that when I read it before, I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't find it. Now that Mr. Meng Honglou pointed it out, I realized that this guy not only used vernacular in the same story , and interspersed so much written language. This is too sloppy!"

When Qingliu heard this, she immediately raised her head and chest, with a proud expression on her face.

When the shopkeeper turned to the content about Taohuayuan, his expression was a bit uneasy: "All the [-] characters at the beginning can't be used? Why? This old man thinks the beginning is well written."

Isn’t the injustice and injustice suffered by the protagonists in this story what ordinary people like them may encounter every moment?At that time, he was willing to give this story to Mr. Meng Honglou to revise, because he took a fancy to the previous content.

You know, when he saw the beginning, he almost didn't cry because of what happened to the protagonist.

Qingliu blinked and reminded in a low voice: "Sir should have given a reason."

When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately flipped through the manuscript until he reached the last page, and finally saw the reason Zhou Yao gave.

"Doesn't match the theme of the story?"

Qingliu nodded: "Mr. said, this story is about the differences and collisions of life habits and concepts that occurred after the scholar entered the Peach Blossom Spring for thousands of years, which caused all kinds of funny or murderous stories. Because The protagonist will obviously not return to the original world, and these [-] words are a bit overwhelming, making it impossible for people to focus on the story he wants to tell."

The shopkeeper was stunned: "It seems to be..."

Just like him, although he knows that the content of the next [-] words is also very exciting, but in the end what he remembers is the content of the first [-] words that has nothing to do with the story itself.

He nodded, and his eyes fell on the manuscript of the last story.