The daily routine of the ancient imperial examination

In the early morning of the next day, in a remote small courtyard on the edge of Ping'an Town, the owner of the room was an old man in his 40s, who was sitting on a chair and smoking a pipe.

The room was very silent, the other party didn't know whether it was a guilty conscience or something, Shi Yunchen came to the door, and the old gentleman kept his head down and kept smoking.

The young master shook his fan, and glanced lightly at the other party: "Mr. Sun, may I ask that Shi Yunchen treats you well, and he actually wants to help you at Ruyi Bookstore?"

Hearing this, the other party smoked more frequently: "We can't help it, Boss Shi, you treat us well, but unfortunately, Boss Qian gave us better conditions..."

"Oh..." Shi Yunchen twitched the corners of his mouth, "You don't abide by professional ethics at all?

Mr. Sun didn't speak, and when he finished smoking a bag of cigarettes, the other party knocked on the cigarette stick: "The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world's hustle and bustle is for profit. I also do this for my life..."

"It's good for living!" Shi Yunchen closed his fan, clapped his hands and smiled at the other party: "Do you have to pay the 200 taels of breach of contract?"

He didn't talk nonsense with the other party. There is no need to keep such a dishonest person. Now being poached away not only saves his effort, but also earns some liquidated damages.

When Mr. Sun heard the liquidated damages, his face became ugly to the naked eye. He put down the cigarette stick in his hand, looked at Shi Yunchen and asked, "Boss Shi's family has a big business, so why bother with us little people? Why don't you just forget about it?" , I will pray for you in the new book."

"Mr. Sun, how big is your face? So big? Bigger than a basin?" Shi Yunchen gestured with both hands, "Do not abide by industry ethics, betray the owner and violate the contract, and want to cheat and not pay the breach of contract?"

Mr. Sun patted the table and stood up.

"Anyway, this old man also helped you write the first batch of books, and it was a good start. You have made so much money for the boss, why can't you show mercy and kindness?!"

"My young master is already kind enough," Shi Yunchen tapped the table lightly with his fan, "otherwise you think you can stand here properly?!"

"You!" Old Mr. Sun shook his body in anger.

"I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you. If you pay 200 taels of liquidated damages, the book store has nothing to do with you, otherwise..." He glanced at the other party, "You don't want to know what will happen next."

The other party leaned back on the chair and sat back, becoming angry from embarrassment: "It's 200 taels of silver! I'll give it to you!"

After speaking, he took out two bags of silver from the drawer of the table and threw them on the table.

The tea table was smashed with a bang.

Shi Yunchen went over and took a look at the money bag. It was clearly prepared by Ruyi Shusi in advance. It seemed that the other party had planned it long ago. He didn't know what benefits he had promised besides helping to pay the liquidated damages.

He opened the purse and checked it, then weighed it again, and it was almost right.

"Okay, the account between us has been settled."

After tearing up the previous contract and not caring about the reaction of the people behind him, Shi Yunchen took two money bags and went back to find Nan Xing. The other party went out earlier than himself, and now he should come back from the other two.

Back at Shifu, Nan Xing just came back with a wrinkled face holding a box of silver.

When the other party saw Shi Yunchen, it was as if they had seen a savior, and hurried forward to complain: "Young master! Those two old gentlemen have a bad attitude! And that Boss Qian! He just poached us on purpose!"

Shi Yunchen waved his hand, signaling him to be calm.

"Nan Xing, please calm down first. After the other two get their money back, we will discuss a solution."

"Ah?" Hearing this, the other party couldn't help rubbing his hands, "Master, why are you not in a hurry at all?! Now the other party not only writes our script, but also poachs all our writers away. How can we make money in the future!"

"What's the use of being anxious? There is a solution if you are anxious?" Shi Yunchen tapped Nan Xing's head with a fan, "What's more, it's not like this young master has never thought about it. If someone is poached, we will recruit new people chant!"

Nan Xing was still very anxious, the other book writers in their town were not as experienced as the five people who were poached!

Not caring about the other party's reaction, Shi Yunchen opened the folding fan to fan the wind, wandered to the corridor, leaned on the pillar, and waited for news from the two people behind.

It was noon, Lu Xiuyuan had finished practicing the article in the morning, and was getting ready to go to the main hall to call Shi Yunchen for lunch.

As soon as he stepped into the room, he saw the young master and Nan Xing's master and servant sitting on chairs with their chins resting on their bored faces.

"What's the matter? Are those people unwilling to pay liquidated damages?" Lu Xiuyuan asked a little puzzled.

"It's not for this reason." Shi Yunchen sighed.

The owner of the Ruyi Bookstore did something wrong. He didn't take it seriously at first. Now that he was cheating, he just continued to recruit people. As a result, who ever thought of recruiting a new book writer couldn't write that kind of ups and downs.

If the stories they wrote were printed, they would definitely not be able to compete with the stories written by those old people.

Thinking of this, Shi Yunchen let out a long sigh: "Lu Erlang, what should I do, the writers I recruited, their writing skills can't match those old things."

"Hmm..." Lu Xiuyuan thought for a while, "It's normal for beginners to write more than old gentlemen. When they write more in the future, this problem will be solved. You don't have to worry too much now. We can also get it from other places. Advantage."

"Hmm?" Hearing this, the other party cheered up instantly, "What good method do you have?"

Lu Xiuyuan expressed his thoughts and began to analyze them.

"The subject matter we are writing now is mainly the waste wood and remarriage. The protagonist of the story is particularly aggrieved in the early stage. The main idea is 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi. Don't bully the young and poor. When the hero becomes famous in the later stage, slap everyone else who bullied him. The villain..."

He turned his gaze to Shi Yunchen: "Since the other party has poached the writer of this type of story away with a lot of money, we can leave him alone and continue to change the subject, wouldn't it be fine?"

"What theme could be more enjoyable than this kind of counterattack and slap in the face?" The other party frowned and thought, according to the scripts he had read before, he really couldn't think of a suitable theme.

Lu Xiuyuan explained: "Counterattack is not a panacea, and the part where the male protagonist suffered aggrieved in the early stage will also make readers uncomfortable. At this time, we write a full-level boss who is reborn in Novice Village and pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger. How about that?" It’s not about making the reader feel good from the beginning, and then going all the way to the end.”

"I understand the idea of ​​pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, but what do you mean by rebirth Novice Village?" the young master asked in confusion.

"Ahem." Lu Xiuyuan cleared his throat, and changed his wording, "It's just a genius. The hero we wrote knows astronomy and geography, and he is omnipotent..."

"But there seems to be no ups and downs in writing like this? Since the hero is omnipotent, how can he slap other people in the face?"

"Hmm..." Lu Xiuyuan thought for a while, and casually gave the other party a few examples of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

"The male protagonist has a photographic memory, he can learn it as soon as he learns it, he is very capable, he is a young genius, but he is very low-key, he never publicizes, and he likes to live a peaceful life, but there are always people who are not long-sighted and come to find fault, and then the male protagonist is very easy. The ground slapped my face swollen..."

"It seems pretty good." Shi Yunchen nodded with interest.

"But what if the other party follows suit?" Nan Xing next to him couldn't wait to ask.

Lu Xiuyuan turned his head and glanced at the other party: "By the time they follow suit, our first batch of earnings will be almost enough, and then we can write another subject..."

"What theme? What kind of story can there be?" Nan Xing asked in a daze.

"Are you happy that the pie fell from the sky?" Lu Xiuyuan asked Nan Xing.

"Happy! But does this have anything to do with the story?" the other party asked suspiciously.

"When the other party follows suit again, we can write a type of luck. The male protagonist tripped on the road. Looking down, it was a piece of gold that tripped him..."

Nan Xing couldn't help but patted his thigh: "Is there such a good thing?!"

"It's more than that! No matter what the male protagonist does, everything goes smoothly. If you are farming, there will be no weeds in the fields. If you go hunting in the mountains, the wild boar will hit a tree and faint in front of the male protagonist. If you go to take the imperial examination, you will meet a great scholar Guiding knowledge, begging to accept the male lead as a closed disciple!"

"This, this..." Looking at Lu Xiuyuan, Nan Xing was too shocked to speak.

This future uncle is so powerful!How did his brain grow? !

"What do you think?" After Lu Xiuyuan finished explaining, he asked Shi Yunchen next to him.

Only then did Shi Yunchen come back to his senses, took a deep breath and said with emotion: "Lu Erlang, it's really a pity that you don't write a storybook..."

"So, you don't have to worry." With a smile on his lips, he walked to the young master and patted him on the shoulder.

"If you think about it from another perspective, it is actually a good thing for them to follow suit, so that we will not be unique. As long as we can keep up with our ideas, our bookstore will always be the leader and eat the bulk of the market."

After listening to Lu Xiuyuan's analysis, Shi Yunchen was also completely relieved. After a sigh of relief, he felt the hunger in his stomach. Looking at the sun outside, he realized that it was already noon.

"Nan Xing hastened to order the kitchen to prepare food for dinner!" After speaking, the young master gave Lu Xiuyuan a slightly apologetic look: "I was too anxious just now, and even forgot to eat, are you not hungry?"

"I'm not very hungry." Lu Xiuyuan took the other's hand, rubbed it in his palm and said, "If you have any troubles in the future, you can come to me early, don't worry about it alone, I will feel bad .”

Shi Yunchen nodded, and the tips of the exposed ears slowly became crimson.

Nan Xing saw the scene of showing affection in front of him, couldn't help covering his eyes, and then moved back step by step to the door.

"I'm going to serve the food!" After speaking, he quickly ran to the kitchen.

The author has something to say: I, Lu Xiuyuan, am the vane of the novel world, and the waver of the Internet literature world. As long as I am here, what is the use of your next-door boss poaching the wall~