Becoming a Demon [Comprehensive]
Chapter 66 Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio
It has been two days since Shen Luo moved into his new home. After spending a lot of money, the whole house has changed drastically.
All the rotten wood was removed and replaced with new wood. The weeds in the yard were also cleaned up, and the new furniture was moved into the main house. When Shen Luo came here again, the whole yard had taken on a new look.
However, such a fast speed makes the whole yard look brand new, and naturally it took a lot of money to produce the effect.
Shen Luo asked to move in as soon as possible, so Xu Yaji naturally contacted many people, spent one day remodeling the yard, another day sent the furniture in, and Shen Luo bought some odds and ends to make it official. Moved into a new house.
With her moving in, the house has a new name, Shen's House. Of course, only a few people know that the ghost house in the east of the city has a new owner.
In this way, Shen Luo began to live alone, but the bad thing was that it rained heavily on the first night of his stay.
With candles lit in the room, Shen Luo laid out a piece of paper and began to write plans for the future. Since he wants to live in a human way, some things cannot be done with human power. The first thing to solve is the source of money.
Living in this world is indispensable for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. Living is the same, and food and clothing should be the first thing to be solved. As for transportation, she has not yet figured out the situation in this world, and she will not leave in a short time.
Most of the money robbed from Huo Yan has already been spent. This is all due to the bad habits she developed in her previous life. She was used to spending thousands of dollars, and she would pay others as much as they wanted.
This also caused her to only have more than 100 taels of silver left on her body, but she ordered three meals a day from the most expensive restaurant in the capital, and she had to pay 20 taels a month, which was enough for her to eat for half a year. Count other odds and ends.
There are also books. She is used to reading books in every world. Reading books is the fastest way to understand a world. No matter which dynasty in ancient times, books are the most precious. It is possible, but if you search through all the books in the bookstore, you will face the dilemma of being kicked out.
Write down the word book store on the paper, and Shen Luo will go and have a look tomorrow, maybe he can come across a solution.
The violent wind and rain outside the house kept beating the woods, the wind blew in through the crack of the door, and the candlelight flickered in the house.Seeing that it was getting late, Shen Luo cleared the table, then blew out the candles and prepared to go to bed.
The moment the candlelight was extinguished, a white shadow passed by outside the house, Shen Luo naturally saw it, but she didn't respond, and went to bed by herself.
She had seen it before, and there were indeed no ghosts in the house, so there was a problem with the figure outside.Shen Luo doesn't care if it's a real ghost or pretending to be a ghost, it's fine if you don't mess with her, if you really want to find her, she will let the other party try what it feels like to have a full head.
Maybe it was because he realized that the trick just now was useless to Shen Luo, so he calmed down outside.
Shen Luo lay peacefully on the bed, breathing smoothly, and slept soundly.At this time, the rain outside became lighter, but the wind was still blowing, and there was a rustling sound from the bamboo forest, which was the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves and the rain falling to the ground.
At this moment, the bolted door in the master bedroom was suddenly opened. The door opened bit by bit, and the original bolted door fell silently to the ground.
A light figure floated towards the bed along with the wind outside the door, that figure approached the head of the bed, and slowly bent over Shen Luo's face.
Shen Luo suddenly opened his eyes at this moment, golden light flashed in his eyes, and the figure immediately fell backwards as if struck by an electric shock.Shen Luo got up and flew after him, the figure hurriedly stepped back, Shen Luo stepped on the fluffy clothes with one foot, and with a rumbling sound, two round big cats rolled out of the clothes.
Shen Luo's face was full of black lines, "Cat demon?"
The two big and fat cats were knocked unconscious, meowed on the spot, turned over and wanted to run outside.
Shen Luo immediately stepped on the tails of the two cats, and the two cats frowned, "Meow!"
"Speak!" Shen Luo knelt down and poked one of the civet cats in the stomach. The civet cat screamed like a humiliated girl, "Meow——"
Shen Luo was not deceived by its performance, "I know that you have already opened your mind, if you keep pretending, I don't mind tasting cat meat."
The other black cat, which was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, suddenly jumped up in fright, but unfortunately its tail was stepped on by Shen Luo, and it couldn't escape no matter how hard it ran.
Shen Luo weighed his feet, and a wave of spiritual power rushed from his feet to the black cat's body. The black cat felt as if it had been struck by lightning, its fur exploded, and it fell stiffly on the ground, completely turning into a useless cat.
"Meow~" the black cat cried weakly.
Seeing the fate of the black cat, the civet cat quickly said, "The king spares his life, the younger one needs to support the elders, the younger one needs to be supported, the king please spare the younger one's life."
Shen Luo looked funny, but still asked seriously, "Why are you pretending to be ghosts to scare people?"
At this time, the black cat got up, it shook its beard, and said with aggrieved face: "Your Majesty doesn't know, this is our home, but humans often come to occupy it and drive us out." Knowing that the owner has changed here, I thought it was their home all the time.
"Later we found out that as long as we put on white clothes and run around the house, those people can be scared away." The civet cat added.
"Seeing that you are not very old, how come you can speak spiritually?" The bones of these two cats are at most 80 years old.
The two cats looked at each other, and finally the civet cat said: "My lord, after the death of our original master, our house was taken over by others. We were driven out of the house, and we had to go to the mountains to live together. We were too hungry once. Dahei ate a red fruit, and then became smart and able to talk. After that, he went to the city to learn from humans. Later, he learned that humans are afraid of ghosts, so he pretended to be ghosts and scared away those who robbed our house. .”
Shen Luo really couldn't put it into words, she didn't expect that this house was haunted, "Now this house is mine, what do you think?" Shen Luo let go of the tails of the two cats.
The black cat and civet cat shook their heads quickly, "Your Majesty, I don't have any ideas. It's our honor that your Majesty can see this house."
Shen Luo didn't make things difficult for them either, "The front yard belongs to me, if you want to come back, you can live in the back yard."
The two cats were overjoyed immediately, it was already very good for them to be able to return home in a fair manner. "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Shen Luo took a step back, "Don't call me Dawang, just call me Sister Shen, and tell me where you found Xiao Hongguo?"
The two cats called Sister Shen sweetly, and then happily rolled at Shen Luo's feet. In the eyes of the two cats, Shen Luo was more powerful than the nearby monsters. With her as a backer, there would be no little monsters in the future They dare to bully them.
The black cat and civet cat scrambled to describe the location of the red fruit tree to Shen Luo. Shen Luo nodded and planned to check it out early tomorrow morning.
The next day, the rain was over and the sky was fine. Whether it was the leaves or the raindrops on the grass, the sun's rays were reflected. Shen Luo followed the black cat to the back of the mountain.This is a big mountain, thousands of meters above sea level, with lush vegetation at the foot of the mountain. If there is no one to guide the way, it is easy to get lost in the vegetation taller than people.
The black cat looked big and fat, but it sneaked into the grass. Shen Luo didn't want to change into its original form, so could only follow behind the black cat with difficulty. It wasn't that she really didn't want to, but her original form was too small. Only, if the black cats see how to maintain her majesty, those two cats will treat her as a thousand-year-old monster.
Shen Luo followed the black cat around the mountains for a long time before finding the red fruit tree. Naturally, it was not the season for the fruit to ripen.
So what Shen Luo saw was just an emerald green vine tree, and the vines entangled the growth of the big tree beside it, and now the big tree was dead and fell on the mountain wall.
Shen Luo carefully observed this vine tree, and soon met a kind of vine tree in memory.
"Is this red fruit?" The leaves are heart-shaped, which is the symbol of the red fruit tree.Legend has it that Zhu Guo blooms for a hundred years and bears fruit for a hundred years. According to the memories of the two cat demons, there are still 20 years before the next flowering.
This is completely useless to Shen Luo, unless she can stay in this world for 120 years, it is possible to pick vermilion fruit.
She sighed helplessly, but she couldn't get it when she arrived at Baoshan. The treasure hadn't been born yet, and she was doomed to miss it by coming early.
Regrettably, after that, Shen Luo didn't worry much about it, and started wandering around. Since this land can breed such treasures as Zhu Guo, it must be able to breed other treasures as well.
Shen Luo hugged the black cat and wandered around. The baby didn't see it, but found that the mountains were rich in food, and many wild vegetables were not picked. She also saw a lot of pheasants and hares running around in the mountains.
It would be great if she knew how to cook, Shen Luo couldn't help sighing, if she knew how to cook, these were all ready-made ingredients, so she wouldn't have to worry about what to eat every day.
A pine nut hit Shen Luo's feet, and when Shen Luo raised his head, he saw a squirrel jumping among the branches, throwing the leftover pine nut shells at Shen Luo from time to time.
The corners of Shen Luo's mouth twitched, feeling that this squirrel was quite cheap, so she picked up the pine nut shells on the ground and threw it at it.
The squirrel wanted to escape, but it was scared when the pine nut shell hit it, and it fled to other trees and disappeared in a blink of an eye.After Shen Luo took revenge, she felt much better. She brushed the cat's hair, and then walked out of the mountain looking for the direction.
"Meow~" The black cat suddenly seemed to feel threatened, and its fur puffed up, "Ha!"
Shen Luo looked up along its line of sight, and it turned out to be a poisonous snake.The poisonous snake climbed up the branch, and half of its body fell below.
Immediately when Shen Luo saw the resin flowing down from the tree, her eyes lit up, and she said in surprise: "The millennium acacia resin!" The resin flowing from the millennium acacia tree was a material she lacked in making the soul-returning incense. I had time to look for it, but I didn't expect to find it here accidentally.
In this way, the materials for making the soul-returning incense are basically collected, and the lacquer produced by the hundred-year-old lacquer tree can be blended to complete the work.
This was a real surprise, Shen Luo raised her hand, and a jade box appeared in her palm. After receiving some millennium acacia fat, Shen Luo couldn't wait to rush home.
In Shen's house, the civet cat was idly lying in front of the door watching the door. Its ears moved suddenly, and it quickly got up from the ground, "It's Dahei and Sister Shen who are back, meow~"
As soon as the words fell, Shen Luo came out of the forest with the black cat in her arms. She threw the black cat to the ground, then went back to the house, changed her clothes, and came out again soon.
"I'll go out for a while, you have to watch your house and don't run around."
The two cats meowed habitually.
Shen Luo regarded them as agreeing, turned around and walked towards the city gate.
After entering the city, Shen Luo went directly to find a carpenter. Carpenters usually work in their own homes and pick up jobs when they come to the door. Shen Luo asked the address of the nearest carpenter and looked for it.
Since looking for lacquer is naturally looking for carpenters, these carpenters will not lack lacquer in their hands.
Knowing Shen Luo's intentions, the carpenter was a little confused: "Century-year lacquer, lacquer trees generally live to 80 to [-] years, although some live to a hundred years, they basically don't produce lacquer."
Shen Luo didn't expect such a result, she said again: "I don't want too much, just three coins, if I can get it, I would like to pay ten taels of silver."
This is a thousand times the price of ordinary lacquer, and the carpenter's eyes lit up immediately, "How about this, let me ask the lacquer supplier, his family should have a lacquer tree that has lived for a hundred years, and it is not much. This can still be squeezed out." It's just a little effort to earn ten taels of silver, and the carpenter thinks it's a good deal.
"Then it's settled. If you have any news, you can find me at Shen's residence one mile outside the east gate."
"One mile outside the east gate?" The carpenter's face was a little strange, "Could it be that the young master doesn't know that this place is a ghost house?"
All the residents living near the east gate are unaware of the power of the house one mile outside the city.
Shen Luo smiled, "It's all rumors, at least I didn't find any ghosts after I stayed for one night." There are actually two cats pretending to be ghosts.
The carpenter smiled, as if she didn't know the power of the house, "I dare not go there, the young master has to come and get it by himself."
Shen Luo asked the time.
The carpenter calculated, "Two months, about two months can make a round trip."
It seems that the place of the sumac tree is quite far away.
"Okay, I'll come to you again in two months." The two wrote a contract and agreed to pick it up after two months. Shen Luo paid a deposit of one or two and left.
Seeing that it was still early before leaving, she went to the restaurant to order a few dishes to take away, and then walked to the bookstore.
The bookstore has the most examinees, and next year is the year of the big exam, so those who came to the capital in advance will get used to it, so as not to be uncomfortable when they come next year.Of course, there are more candidates who failed the imperial examination the year before and did not want to return to their hometowns, and have stayed in the capital until now.
Shen Luo is short and has tender skin, but fortunately she has a phantom Adam's apple, otherwise someone would have to regard her as a woman who squeezed in.
After flipping through a book, Shen Luo thought that she had gone to the wrong place.
This is an eclectic story about a scholar who went to Beijing to rush for an exam and met a female ghost. The most amazing thing is that the man finally conquered the female ghost. The female ghost was very moved by her character and followed the man to Beijing. After rushing for the exam, he gradually became a human being. The champion among the men married the princess, and then married the female ghost. The three lived a happy life together.
Shen Luo was stunned after reading it, what the hell is this?
At this time, someone shouted: "Mr. Changliu's new book is out? My son wants a copy."
Mr. Changliu?Shen Luo opened the book, only to see the letter: The sun produces fragrance, Mr. Changliu.
"It's out. The new book is about love between humans and ghosts. Everyone line up and don't grab it." The shopkeeper of the bookstore shouted.
"What? Mr. Changliu's book has come out? Hurry up and get me a copy."
Shen Luo was immediately dumbfounded. The scholars who were honest and gentlemen before suddenly made a mess, scrambling to line up to grab the books.
She looked at the book in her hand, and then looked aside. It turned out that the piece she was standing on was full of story books. When she heard the people who grabbed the books one by one, and the people pouring in from the door, Shen Luo couldn't help it. Thoughtful.
It seems that writing novels in this world is still very promising.
Shen Luo called the waiter, "Who is Mr. Changliu?"
The shop clerk smiled and said, "Young Master, you just came to the capital, right?"
Shen Luo nodded implicitly, and the shop waiter continued: "In our capital, there are four great originators in the real world, Zhuge Layman, Jin Wushanren, Mr. Changliu, and Kumusou. Zhuge Layman is good at maneuvering; Jinwushanren is good at Overseas Immortals; Mr. Changliu is good at eclectic stories about humans, ghosts and monsters; Old Man Kumu is good at mountain legends and monkhood stories. As soon as these four people’s scripts come out, the supply is in short supply. As long as our books come out in the south of the Yangtze River, we will buy them back and print them, my son. You can imagine how hot these stories are."
Shen Luo looked at the crowded crowd and asked in a low voice, "Do you make money writing scripts?"
The store waiter took a look at Shen Luo, "Naturally, you make money, do you know how much dividends Mr. Changliu gets from a book?"
Shen Luo answered in a timely manner, "How many?"
The waiter in the shop whispered: "At least a thousand taels. This is the part of the capital, and I don't know about the part in the south of the Yangtze River. I think the young master is also a scholar. If you are interested, you can write a book. As long as you are interested in the bookstore, you will basically have it." Income. For example, many scholars who did not pass the exam in the previous session made a living by writing scripts, although they can’t be compared with those four, but writing well is also a good life.”
"Then I'll give it a try?" Shen Luo was moved when she heard it. She comes from a world of information explosion. She has read countless books in the previous two lives. Now it can be said that she stands taller than anyone in this world. .
The waiter in the shop said: "Okay, but after writing it, the shopkeeper has to look at it, and only if the shopkeeper is willing to accept it."
This point is not a problem, Shen Luo thinks that his writing skills are not bad, and it is still possible to write a storybook.Moreover, she lay in Feng Boning's arms during the period of conferring the gods and heard a lot of gossip stories about the gods.Randomly pull out an addition, addition, subtraction, and subtraction to form a good story.
After making a decision, Shen Luo bought a lot of paper and ink. Her own piece of ink was left over from the previous world, and it was worth thousands of gold. She was really reluctant to use it to write the storybook.
After buying ink, and thinking that the pens were high-end ones, they would have to be replaced, so Shen Luo simply bought a few more small pens, so that he could write more on a piece of paper.
After returning home, she ate and fed the two demon cats by the way.
"By the way, shouldn't I give you a name?" Shen Luo kicked the two ball-like cats beside her feet.
The black cat meowed in protest, "I have a name, and my name is Dahei."
As soon as Shen Luo heard the name Da Hei, he thought of Huo Yan's black face. Didn't his young master nickname him Ah Hei?
No, the name Dahei is too dramatic.
"I'll call you Black Panther." Shen Luo said to himself.
The black cat pricked up its ears, as if the name Black Panther was indeed more powerful than Dahei, and the civet cat on the side protested: "Sister Shen, I want a new name too."
Shen Luo looked down at it, "I forgot to ask you, what was your previous name?"
The civet cat twisted its back and said embarrassedly, but the black cat whispered, "It's called Fat Girl."
The civet cat suddenly exploded in anger, the fur on its tail exploded, and slapped the black cat, "Well, you big black, don't you just have a better name than mine? Do you use it for fun?"
The black cat wanted to fight back, Shen Luo quickly picked up the civet cat and separated the two, "Okay, okay, stop arguing with the two, let me think about what name I should give you."
"I'm more domineering than the black panther." The civet cat looked at Shen Luo eagerly and said.
Shen Luo glanced at the room, and then looked out the window, "Why don't we call it Totoro?" The name Totoro must be domineering, right?
"Totoro, Totoro is a good name, from now on I will be called Totoro!" Since ancient times, both humans and demons have longed to have a relationship with dragons, which can prove that they are superior to others or other demons.
After getting the name Totoro, the civet cat jumped off Shen Luo's lap, and raised its head around the black cat.
The black cat slapped it immediately, and the civet cat fluffed up again. The two cats chased each other from the house to the outside.
Shen Luo ignored the two bastards, closed the door directly, took out a pen to write and draw on the paper.
Since she wants to write a storybook, she should first choose a pen name. She has already decided on a pen name, so she will call it Jinjiang Sheren, commemorating a novel website she liked in modern times.
The next thing is to write the content of the storybook. Shen Luo thought about it, and only if she is more familiar with the things during the Conferred God period, and she also knows the bronze inscriptions, she can definitely write a story about a young man in this dynasty based on the story of Conferred God. The story of getting a tripod accidentally, and then embarking on the road of cultivation through the bronze inscriptions on the tripod, smashing the world.
It sounds very familiar, it is a modern level-up novel, but Shen Luo has mastered a lot of cultivation methods, as well as the means of eliminating demons and catching ghosts. The similarity is purely coincidental.
Well, Shen Luo just didn't think it was a big deal, and was going to steal dry goods in the novel. If someone really took the cultivation method in it seriously and had perseverance, it can only be said that this person is really destined to practice Taoism.
It is also a good thing, after all, this world is a coexistence of human beings and ghosts, and learning some Taoism can be regarded as ensuring one's own safety.
Thinking of doing it, and after making the outline, Shen Luo happily filled in the hole.
As for the image of the male protagonist, Shen Luo used Fu Jin as his original form. He also wrote about a rich boy who was broken up and sent to his ancestral home to cultivate. Rain walked into a magical cave.In the cave, he saw a luminous bronze tripod, and he approached it involuntarily. When he touched the tripod, the golden inscriptions on the tripod floated up one by one, and they couldn't wait to get into his body, slowly driving the circulation of the surrounding spiritual energy. This kid is so stupid and blessed to have completed the first marrow washing.
After that, it was like a certain novel, constantly slapping faces, constantly upgrading, and then leaving this small world.
Shen Luo didn't plan to write for a long time, but only planned to write until the protagonist left this world.
For the next two months, apart from practicing, Shen Luo would write the storybook, and she didn't finish writing until the male protagonist Yipo recovered and entered the path of cultivation by mistake.
This day happened to be the day she had agreed with the carpenter. Shen Luo sorted out the manuscript, put it in her purse and went out.
I can't go out, because I have raised two cats with big stomachs, the expenses have increased greatly, and if there is no income, the whole family will have to drink northwest wind.
After taking the hundred-year-old lacquer from the carpenter, Shen Luo painfully paid the remaining nine taels of silver, and now she only has 60 taels of silver left in her pocket, which is enough for three months' expenses.Next, she will go to the bookstore to see if her books meet the tastes of people in this world. If not, she is ready to blackmail Huo Yan again.
After entering the bookstore, it's rare that the waiter in the store still remembers her, "Young master hasn't come for two months."
Shen Luo touched his nose uncomfortably, and watched as he took out a stack of bound books from his bosom, which was actually his purse.
"This is the script I wrote in the past two months. I don't know if it can meet your requirements for accepting the script."
"My lord, please sit down, and I will invite our shopkeeper over here." The waiter in the store spoke very politely, and led Shen Luo aside to sit down.
Seeing that he didn't take away the books she wrote, Shen Luo was very satisfied. It seems that this bookstore is still very well-behaved.
The waiter in the store quickly invited the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper is a man in his 50s, with a few strands of gray hair. It is probably because people in this world generally get old quickly. For many people, 50 years old is already an old man.
Unlike the shopkeepers elsewhere, this shopkeeper has no beard and a smooth chin, making him look ten years younger.
"Hello shopkeeper." Shen Luo stood up and bowed.
The shopkeeper returned a salute, stretched out his palms and said, "Sir, please sit down." His voice was very deep, and it didn't look like it should be at this age.
"Don't just stand there and pour tea for the customers." The shopkeeper sent the waiter away, and then looked at the book on the table in front of him.
"Is this the one?"
Shen Luo touched her nose in embarrassment, "Yes." I always felt that the stories I wrote would be read by others, and I would feel an inexplicable sense of shame.
"Can I take a look?" The shopkeeper asked with a smile on his face, seeing her nervousness without making a move.
"Of course." Shen Luo went all out, he had to pass this level, right?
The shopkeeper picked up the book from the table respectfully with both hands. This dynasty always respects scholars.
The shopkeeper opened the book, and at this moment the waiter brought a pot of tea and two teacups, poured tea into the cups, and then withdrew.
Holding the teacup in his hand, Shen Luo watched the shopkeeper immerse himself in the world depicted in the book.
Shen Luo was fidgeting for a while, wondering if his handwriting was sloppy, and wondering whether the choice of words and sentences met the requirements of this era?
She wrote in vernacular, and she didn't use too gorgeous words to describe it, so it was inevitable that she was a little unconfident.
Half an hour later, the shopkeeper finished turning over the last page, and still asked, "Are there any more?"
Shen Luo shook his head, "Here are all the finished ones. I didn't write much because I don't know if they are qualified or not."
The shopkeeper put down the book, pondered for a while, and said, "I think this book is very good, but I don't know if the customers will be satisfied. It's not like our bookstore was unanimously optimistic about it before, but the customers didn't buy it."
Shen Luo smiled and said nothing, she knew that the other party had taken a fancy to her book, and said these were just to lower the price.
"After printing it, we have the risk of losing money. I think so, if you want, I can buy this story for ten taels of silver."
"The book of ten taels?" Shen Luo raised his eyebrows.
The shopkeeper stretched out his right index finger and shook it, then clicked on the book, "The whole story of ten taels."
Twelve taels?Not enough food for her for a month!
"1000 taels!" Shen Luo smiled, now is the time to pay back the money by asking prices all over the sky.
The shopkeeper's face couldn't be tense, "Young master is too whimsical, no one in the whole capital would dare to open it at this price."
Shen Luo also said: "If you buy a million-word script for ten taels, don't you think it's too wild."
"This story has a million words?" the shopkeeper asked eagerly.
Shen Luo nodded, "Of course." She took the book on the table and shook it at the shopkeeper, "This is just the beginning of the story, the real sex is here." She pointed to her head.
In this era, a million words is already a gigantic work.For example, Mr. Changliu's [-]-character storybook is considered a long story.
After pretending to be coercive, Shen Luo took the book and left, "Okay, since the shopkeeper is not sincere, I will go to another house to have a look."
The shopkeeper hurriedly got up, "Come on, haven't we talked about this yet?"
Shen Luo turned her head and curled the corner of her mouth, "I won't agree without dividends."
Dividends are generally only given to those well-known authors, just to trap them. Shen Luoti's salary is not high, and the shopkeeper is not unacceptable.
The important thing is that this story is too novel, and the battle scenes depicted are immersive and exciting. The shopkeeper is sure that this is a rare and good work.
"You can get dividends, but it's impossible to get the same treatment as other gentlemen." The shopkeeper said the bottom line directly.
Shen Luo nodded, she could understand this, after all, she was a newcomer, so naturally she couldn't ask for the same treatment as the Great God.
"In this way, the first part will be paid according to the normal treatment, and then we will see the sales volume of this one, and then adjust if the sales volume is good." The shopkeeper said a plan that both of them could accept.
As for the poor sales, neither of them mentioned this.Wouldn't it be a bad idea to mention it?
Shen Luo agreed, and the shopkeeper said that the first batch of books would be sold in the bookstore in half a month, and told her to write the amount of the next book as soon as possible, and then personally sent her out.
Because it is a dividend, the account can only be settled once three months after the book is published.In other words, it will take three and a half months to get the income, and she has to live very tight in these three months.
This is not the life Shen Luo wants, she turned around and walked towards the horse market.
The horse market not only sells horses, but also livestock such as cattle and sheep, and the most important thing is to sell slaves. The slaves after the government ransacked their homes are basically sold here.
Shen Luo intends to sell a skilled servant back to cook three meals a day, which can also save some expenses. She has been envious of those fat chickens and fat rabbits in Houshan for a long time, and the two cats are fine at home. It's the same, just in time to go hunting and make a contribution to the family.
On the way to the horse market, when Shen Luo passed by an antique stall, she stopped suddenly.Turning around and squatting down, she pointed to a vase and asked, "How much is this?"
The stall owner's eyes lit up, "This young man has really good eyesight, this is..."
Shen Luo interrupted his bragging, "I know, this vase has been fired for at most ten years, I just think the pattern on this vase is pleasing to the eye, and there is only a vase missing in the study. Just a few streets."
The boss was stunned immediately, "Young master, your eyes are really sharp. If you want this vase, I will give you five taels of silver."
Shen Luo directly took out the broken silver in his pocket, "Do you want half a tael? It's only a hundred and eighty cash when I go to the porcelain shop."
"Yes, yes." The boss quickly took it over, and then muttered, "Young master, you really know how to bargain." But in fact, the boss secretly rejoiced in his heart. He picked up this vase in the wild, and poked it underneath The year title of the current emperor is worthless at all, and getting half a tael is already a big profit.
Shen Luo turned around holding the vase, and instead of going to the horse market, she went straight out of the city gate and went home.
The two cats thought that Shen Luo would come back with lunch and quickly circled around. Shen Luo gave the cat a kick, "I have no money, go to the back of the mountain to catch chickens and rabbits, from now on I have to provide food by myself."
The panther and chinchilla meowed in dissatisfaction, Shen Luo made a gesture to kick, and the two ran out rolling and crawling.
Shen Luo entered the room, closed the door, and knocked on the vase, "Come out!"
The vase did not move, and Shen Luo knocked again, "If you don't come out, I will break this vase."
At this time, a puff of blue smoke came out from the mouth of the vase, and a beautiful woman appeared in front of Shen Luo, "Young master, why do you threaten this slave, the slave can only hurt you when he comes out."
Shen Luo pulled a stool over and sat down, "Don't worry, even if you want to hurt evil, you won't be able to hurt evil."
The woman sensed it, and suddenly her eyes widened, "Young master is not human."
Shen Luo ignored her words, instead she tapped her fingers on the table and asked, "Can you cook?"
The woman nodded inexplicably, and Shen Luo immediately got up and clapped her hands, "That's good." Then she said to the woman: "I don't ask why you are in this vase, nor your identity before you were alive. Regularly provide Yin Qi for your cultivation, and you will be responsible for three meals a day at home, okay?"
The woman is a little confused.
Shen Luo seemed to remember something and asked, "By the way, what's your name?"
"You Rong, your slave's name is You Rong." The woman whispered.
All the rotten wood was removed and replaced with new wood. The weeds in the yard were also cleaned up, and the new furniture was moved into the main house. When Shen Luo came here again, the whole yard had taken on a new look.
However, such a fast speed makes the whole yard look brand new, and naturally it took a lot of money to produce the effect.
Shen Luo asked to move in as soon as possible, so Xu Yaji naturally contacted many people, spent one day remodeling the yard, another day sent the furniture in, and Shen Luo bought some odds and ends to make it official. Moved into a new house.
With her moving in, the house has a new name, Shen's House. Of course, only a few people know that the ghost house in the east of the city has a new owner.
In this way, Shen Luo began to live alone, but the bad thing was that it rained heavily on the first night of his stay.
With candles lit in the room, Shen Luo laid out a piece of paper and began to write plans for the future. Since he wants to live in a human way, some things cannot be done with human power. The first thing to solve is the source of money.
Living in this world is indispensable for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. Living is the same, and food and clothing should be the first thing to be solved. As for transportation, she has not yet figured out the situation in this world, and she will not leave in a short time.
Most of the money robbed from Huo Yan has already been spent. This is all due to the bad habits she developed in her previous life. She was used to spending thousands of dollars, and she would pay others as much as they wanted.
This also caused her to only have more than 100 taels of silver left on her body, but she ordered three meals a day from the most expensive restaurant in the capital, and she had to pay 20 taels a month, which was enough for her to eat for half a year. Count other odds and ends.
There are also books. She is used to reading books in every world. Reading books is the fastest way to understand a world. No matter which dynasty in ancient times, books are the most precious. It is possible, but if you search through all the books in the bookstore, you will face the dilemma of being kicked out.
Write down the word book store on the paper, and Shen Luo will go and have a look tomorrow, maybe he can come across a solution.
The violent wind and rain outside the house kept beating the woods, the wind blew in through the crack of the door, and the candlelight flickered in the house.Seeing that it was getting late, Shen Luo cleared the table, then blew out the candles and prepared to go to bed.
The moment the candlelight was extinguished, a white shadow passed by outside the house, Shen Luo naturally saw it, but she didn't respond, and went to bed by herself.
She had seen it before, and there were indeed no ghosts in the house, so there was a problem with the figure outside.Shen Luo doesn't care if it's a real ghost or pretending to be a ghost, it's fine if you don't mess with her, if you really want to find her, she will let the other party try what it feels like to have a full head.
Maybe it was because he realized that the trick just now was useless to Shen Luo, so he calmed down outside.
Shen Luo lay peacefully on the bed, breathing smoothly, and slept soundly.At this time, the rain outside became lighter, but the wind was still blowing, and there was a rustling sound from the bamboo forest, which was the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves and the rain falling to the ground.
At this moment, the bolted door in the master bedroom was suddenly opened. The door opened bit by bit, and the original bolted door fell silently to the ground.
A light figure floated towards the bed along with the wind outside the door, that figure approached the head of the bed, and slowly bent over Shen Luo's face.
Shen Luo suddenly opened his eyes at this moment, golden light flashed in his eyes, and the figure immediately fell backwards as if struck by an electric shock.Shen Luo got up and flew after him, the figure hurriedly stepped back, Shen Luo stepped on the fluffy clothes with one foot, and with a rumbling sound, two round big cats rolled out of the clothes.
Shen Luo's face was full of black lines, "Cat demon?"
The two big and fat cats were knocked unconscious, meowed on the spot, turned over and wanted to run outside.
Shen Luo immediately stepped on the tails of the two cats, and the two cats frowned, "Meow!"
"Speak!" Shen Luo knelt down and poked one of the civet cats in the stomach. The civet cat screamed like a humiliated girl, "Meow——"
Shen Luo was not deceived by its performance, "I know that you have already opened your mind, if you keep pretending, I don't mind tasting cat meat."
The other black cat, which was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, suddenly jumped up in fright, but unfortunately its tail was stepped on by Shen Luo, and it couldn't escape no matter how hard it ran.
Shen Luo weighed his feet, and a wave of spiritual power rushed from his feet to the black cat's body. The black cat felt as if it had been struck by lightning, its fur exploded, and it fell stiffly on the ground, completely turning into a useless cat.
"Meow~" the black cat cried weakly.
Seeing the fate of the black cat, the civet cat quickly said, "The king spares his life, the younger one needs to support the elders, the younger one needs to be supported, the king please spare the younger one's life."
Shen Luo looked funny, but still asked seriously, "Why are you pretending to be ghosts to scare people?"
At this time, the black cat got up, it shook its beard, and said with aggrieved face: "Your Majesty doesn't know, this is our home, but humans often come to occupy it and drive us out." Knowing that the owner has changed here, I thought it was their home all the time.
"Later we found out that as long as we put on white clothes and run around the house, those people can be scared away." The civet cat added.
"Seeing that you are not very old, how come you can speak spiritually?" The bones of these two cats are at most 80 years old.
The two cats looked at each other, and finally the civet cat said: "My lord, after the death of our original master, our house was taken over by others. We were driven out of the house, and we had to go to the mountains to live together. We were too hungry once. Dahei ate a red fruit, and then became smart and able to talk. After that, he went to the city to learn from humans. Later, he learned that humans are afraid of ghosts, so he pretended to be ghosts and scared away those who robbed our house. .”
Shen Luo really couldn't put it into words, she didn't expect that this house was haunted, "Now this house is mine, what do you think?" Shen Luo let go of the tails of the two cats.
The black cat and civet cat shook their heads quickly, "Your Majesty, I don't have any ideas. It's our honor that your Majesty can see this house."
Shen Luo didn't make things difficult for them either, "The front yard belongs to me, if you want to come back, you can live in the back yard."
The two cats were overjoyed immediately, it was already very good for them to be able to return home in a fair manner. "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Shen Luo took a step back, "Don't call me Dawang, just call me Sister Shen, and tell me where you found Xiao Hongguo?"
The two cats called Sister Shen sweetly, and then happily rolled at Shen Luo's feet. In the eyes of the two cats, Shen Luo was more powerful than the nearby monsters. With her as a backer, there would be no little monsters in the future They dare to bully them.
The black cat and civet cat scrambled to describe the location of the red fruit tree to Shen Luo. Shen Luo nodded and planned to check it out early tomorrow morning.
The next day, the rain was over and the sky was fine. Whether it was the leaves or the raindrops on the grass, the sun's rays were reflected. Shen Luo followed the black cat to the back of the mountain.This is a big mountain, thousands of meters above sea level, with lush vegetation at the foot of the mountain. If there is no one to guide the way, it is easy to get lost in the vegetation taller than people.
The black cat looked big and fat, but it sneaked into the grass. Shen Luo didn't want to change into its original form, so could only follow behind the black cat with difficulty. It wasn't that she really didn't want to, but her original form was too small. Only, if the black cats see how to maintain her majesty, those two cats will treat her as a thousand-year-old monster.
Shen Luo followed the black cat around the mountains for a long time before finding the red fruit tree. Naturally, it was not the season for the fruit to ripen.
So what Shen Luo saw was just an emerald green vine tree, and the vines entangled the growth of the big tree beside it, and now the big tree was dead and fell on the mountain wall.
Shen Luo carefully observed this vine tree, and soon met a kind of vine tree in memory.
"Is this red fruit?" The leaves are heart-shaped, which is the symbol of the red fruit tree.Legend has it that Zhu Guo blooms for a hundred years and bears fruit for a hundred years. According to the memories of the two cat demons, there are still 20 years before the next flowering.
This is completely useless to Shen Luo, unless she can stay in this world for 120 years, it is possible to pick vermilion fruit.
She sighed helplessly, but she couldn't get it when she arrived at Baoshan. The treasure hadn't been born yet, and she was doomed to miss it by coming early.
Regrettably, after that, Shen Luo didn't worry much about it, and started wandering around. Since this land can breed such treasures as Zhu Guo, it must be able to breed other treasures as well.
Shen Luo hugged the black cat and wandered around. The baby didn't see it, but found that the mountains were rich in food, and many wild vegetables were not picked. She also saw a lot of pheasants and hares running around in the mountains.
It would be great if she knew how to cook, Shen Luo couldn't help sighing, if she knew how to cook, these were all ready-made ingredients, so she wouldn't have to worry about what to eat every day.
A pine nut hit Shen Luo's feet, and when Shen Luo raised his head, he saw a squirrel jumping among the branches, throwing the leftover pine nut shells at Shen Luo from time to time.
The corners of Shen Luo's mouth twitched, feeling that this squirrel was quite cheap, so she picked up the pine nut shells on the ground and threw it at it.
The squirrel wanted to escape, but it was scared when the pine nut shell hit it, and it fled to other trees and disappeared in a blink of an eye.After Shen Luo took revenge, she felt much better. She brushed the cat's hair, and then walked out of the mountain looking for the direction.
"Meow~" The black cat suddenly seemed to feel threatened, and its fur puffed up, "Ha!"
Shen Luo looked up along its line of sight, and it turned out to be a poisonous snake.The poisonous snake climbed up the branch, and half of its body fell below.
Immediately when Shen Luo saw the resin flowing down from the tree, her eyes lit up, and she said in surprise: "The millennium acacia resin!" The resin flowing from the millennium acacia tree was a material she lacked in making the soul-returning incense. I had time to look for it, but I didn't expect to find it here accidentally.
In this way, the materials for making the soul-returning incense are basically collected, and the lacquer produced by the hundred-year-old lacquer tree can be blended to complete the work.
This was a real surprise, Shen Luo raised her hand, and a jade box appeared in her palm. After receiving some millennium acacia fat, Shen Luo couldn't wait to rush home.
In Shen's house, the civet cat was idly lying in front of the door watching the door. Its ears moved suddenly, and it quickly got up from the ground, "It's Dahei and Sister Shen who are back, meow~"
As soon as the words fell, Shen Luo came out of the forest with the black cat in her arms. She threw the black cat to the ground, then went back to the house, changed her clothes, and came out again soon.
"I'll go out for a while, you have to watch your house and don't run around."
The two cats meowed habitually.
Shen Luo regarded them as agreeing, turned around and walked towards the city gate.
After entering the city, Shen Luo went directly to find a carpenter. Carpenters usually work in their own homes and pick up jobs when they come to the door. Shen Luo asked the address of the nearest carpenter and looked for it.
Since looking for lacquer is naturally looking for carpenters, these carpenters will not lack lacquer in their hands.
Knowing Shen Luo's intentions, the carpenter was a little confused: "Century-year lacquer, lacquer trees generally live to 80 to [-] years, although some live to a hundred years, they basically don't produce lacquer."
Shen Luo didn't expect such a result, she said again: "I don't want too much, just three coins, if I can get it, I would like to pay ten taels of silver."
This is a thousand times the price of ordinary lacquer, and the carpenter's eyes lit up immediately, "How about this, let me ask the lacquer supplier, his family should have a lacquer tree that has lived for a hundred years, and it is not much. This can still be squeezed out." It's just a little effort to earn ten taels of silver, and the carpenter thinks it's a good deal.
"Then it's settled. If you have any news, you can find me at Shen's residence one mile outside the east gate."
"One mile outside the east gate?" The carpenter's face was a little strange, "Could it be that the young master doesn't know that this place is a ghost house?"
All the residents living near the east gate are unaware of the power of the house one mile outside the city.
Shen Luo smiled, "It's all rumors, at least I didn't find any ghosts after I stayed for one night." There are actually two cats pretending to be ghosts.
The carpenter smiled, as if she didn't know the power of the house, "I dare not go there, the young master has to come and get it by himself."
Shen Luo asked the time.
The carpenter calculated, "Two months, about two months can make a round trip."
It seems that the place of the sumac tree is quite far away.
"Okay, I'll come to you again in two months." The two wrote a contract and agreed to pick it up after two months. Shen Luo paid a deposit of one or two and left.
Seeing that it was still early before leaving, she went to the restaurant to order a few dishes to take away, and then walked to the bookstore.
The bookstore has the most examinees, and next year is the year of the big exam, so those who came to the capital in advance will get used to it, so as not to be uncomfortable when they come next year.Of course, there are more candidates who failed the imperial examination the year before and did not want to return to their hometowns, and have stayed in the capital until now.
Shen Luo is short and has tender skin, but fortunately she has a phantom Adam's apple, otherwise someone would have to regard her as a woman who squeezed in.
After flipping through a book, Shen Luo thought that she had gone to the wrong place.
This is an eclectic story about a scholar who went to Beijing to rush for an exam and met a female ghost. The most amazing thing is that the man finally conquered the female ghost. The female ghost was very moved by her character and followed the man to Beijing. After rushing for the exam, he gradually became a human being. The champion among the men married the princess, and then married the female ghost. The three lived a happy life together.
Shen Luo was stunned after reading it, what the hell is this?
At this time, someone shouted: "Mr. Changliu's new book is out? My son wants a copy."
Mr. Changliu?Shen Luo opened the book, only to see the letter: The sun produces fragrance, Mr. Changliu.
"It's out. The new book is about love between humans and ghosts. Everyone line up and don't grab it." The shopkeeper of the bookstore shouted.
"What? Mr. Changliu's book has come out? Hurry up and get me a copy."
Shen Luo was immediately dumbfounded. The scholars who were honest and gentlemen before suddenly made a mess, scrambling to line up to grab the books.
She looked at the book in her hand, and then looked aside. It turned out that the piece she was standing on was full of story books. When she heard the people who grabbed the books one by one, and the people pouring in from the door, Shen Luo couldn't help it. Thoughtful.
It seems that writing novels in this world is still very promising.
Shen Luo called the waiter, "Who is Mr. Changliu?"
The shop clerk smiled and said, "Young Master, you just came to the capital, right?"
Shen Luo nodded implicitly, and the shop waiter continued: "In our capital, there are four great originators in the real world, Zhuge Layman, Jin Wushanren, Mr. Changliu, and Kumusou. Zhuge Layman is good at maneuvering; Jinwushanren is good at Overseas Immortals; Mr. Changliu is good at eclectic stories about humans, ghosts and monsters; Old Man Kumu is good at mountain legends and monkhood stories. As soon as these four people’s scripts come out, the supply is in short supply. As long as our books come out in the south of the Yangtze River, we will buy them back and print them, my son. You can imagine how hot these stories are."
Shen Luo looked at the crowded crowd and asked in a low voice, "Do you make money writing scripts?"
The store waiter took a look at Shen Luo, "Naturally, you make money, do you know how much dividends Mr. Changliu gets from a book?"
Shen Luo answered in a timely manner, "How many?"
The waiter in the shop whispered: "At least a thousand taels. This is the part of the capital, and I don't know about the part in the south of the Yangtze River. I think the young master is also a scholar. If you are interested, you can write a book. As long as you are interested in the bookstore, you will basically have it." Income. For example, many scholars who did not pass the exam in the previous session made a living by writing scripts, although they can’t be compared with those four, but writing well is also a good life.”
"Then I'll give it a try?" Shen Luo was moved when she heard it. She comes from a world of information explosion. She has read countless books in the previous two lives. Now it can be said that she stands taller than anyone in this world. .
The waiter in the shop said: "Okay, but after writing it, the shopkeeper has to look at it, and only if the shopkeeper is willing to accept it."
This point is not a problem, Shen Luo thinks that his writing skills are not bad, and it is still possible to write a storybook.Moreover, she lay in Feng Boning's arms during the period of conferring the gods and heard a lot of gossip stories about the gods.Randomly pull out an addition, addition, subtraction, and subtraction to form a good story.
After making a decision, Shen Luo bought a lot of paper and ink. Her own piece of ink was left over from the previous world, and it was worth thousands of gold. She was really reluctant to use it to write the storybook.
After buying ink, and thinking that the pens were high-end ones, they would have to be replaced, so Shen Luo simply bought a few more small pens, so that he could write more on a piece of paper.
After returning home, she ate and fed the two demon cats by the way.
"By the way, shouldn't I give you a name?" Shen Luo kicked the two ball-like cats beside her feet.
The black cat meowed in protest, "I have a name, and my name is Dahei."
As soon as Shen Luo heard the name Da Hei, he thought of Huo Yan's black face. Didn't his young master nickname him Ah Hei?
No, the name Dahei is too dramatic.
"I'll call you Black Panther." Shen Luo said to himself.
The black cat pricked up its ears, as if the name Black Panther was indeed more powerful than Dahei, and the civet cat on the side protested: "Sister Shen, I want a new name too."
Shen Luo looked down at it, "I forgot to ask you, what was your previous name?"
The civet cat twisted its back and said embarrassedly, but the black cat whispered, "It's called Fat Girl."
The civet cat suddenly exploded in anger, the fur on its tail exploded, and slapped the black cat, "Well, you big black, don't you just have a better name than mine? Do you use it for fun?"
The black cat wanted to fight back, Shen Luo quickly picked up the civet cat and separated the two, "Okay, okay, stop arguing with the two, let me think about what name I should give you."
"I'm more domineering than the black panther." The civet cat looked at Shen Luo eagerly and said.
Shen Luo glanced at the room, and then looked out the window, "Why don't we call it Totoro?" The name Totoro must be domineering, right?
"Totoro, Totoro is a good name, from now on I will be called Totoro!" Since ancient times, both humans and demons have longed to have a relationship with dragons, which can prove that they are superior to others or other demons.
After getting the name Totoro, the civet cat jumped off Shen Luo's lap, and raised its head around the black cat.
The black cat slapped it immediately, and the civet cat fluffed up again. The two cats chased each other from the house to the outside.
Shen Luo ignored the two bastards, closed the door directly, took out a pen to write and draw on the paper.
Since she wants to write a storybook, she should first choose a pen name. She has already decided on a pen name, so she will call it Jinjiang Sheren, commemorating a novel website she liked in modern times.
The next thing is to write the content of the storybook. Shen Luo thought about it, and only if she is more familiar with the things during the Conferred God period, and she also knows the bronze inscriptions, she can definitely write a story about a young man in this dynasty based on the story of Conferred God. The story of getting a tripod accidentally, and then embarking on the road of cultivation through the bronze inscriptions on the tripod, smashing the world.
It sounds very familiar, it is a modern level-up novel, but Shen Luo has mastered a lot of cultivation methods, as well as the means of eliminating demons and catching ghosts. The similarity is purely coincidental.
Well, Shen Luo just didn't think it was a big deal, and was going to steal dry goods in the novel. If someone really took the cultivation method in it seriously and had perseverance, it can only be said that this person is really destined to practice Taoism.
It is also a good thing, after all, this world is a coexistence of human beings and ghosts, and learning some Taoism can be regarded as ensuring one's own safety.
Thinking of doing it, and after making the outline, Shen Luo happily filled in the hole.
As for the image of the male protagonist, Shen Luo used Fu Jin as his original form. He also wrote about a rich boy who was broken up and sent to his ancestral home to cultivate. Rain walked into a magical cave.In the cave, he saw a luminous bronze tripod, and he approached it involuntarily. When he touched the tripod, the golden inscriptions on the tripod floated up one by one, and they couldn't wait to get into his body, slowly driving the circulation of the surrounding spiritual energy. This kid is so stupid and blessed to have completed the first marrow washing.
After that, it was like a certain novel, constantly slapping faces, constantly upgrading, and then leaving this small world.
Shen Luo didn't plan to write for a long time, but only planned to write until the protagonist left this world.
For the next two months, apart from practicing, Shen Luo would write the storybook, and she didn't finish writing until the male protagonist Yipo recovered and entered the path of cultivation by mistake.
This day happened to be the day she had agreed with the carpenter. Shen Luo sorted out the manuscript, put it in her purse and went out.
I can't go out, because I have raised two cats with big stomachs, the expenses have increased greatly, and if there is no income, the whole family will have to drink northwest wind.
After taking the hundred-year-old lacquer from the carpenter, Shen Luo painfully paid the remaining nine taels of silver, and now she only has 60 taels of silver left in her pocket, which is enough for three months' expenses.Next, she will go to the bookstore to see if her books meet the tastes of people in this world. If not, she is ready to blackmail Huo Yan again.
After entering the bookstore, it's rare that the waiter in the store still remembers her, "Young master hasn't come for two months."
Shen Luo touched his nose uncomfortably, and watched as he took out a stack of bound books from his bosom, which was actually his purse.
"This is the script I wrote in the past two months. I don't know if it can meet your requirements for accepting the script."
"My lord, please sit down, and I will invite our shopkeeper over here." The waiter in the store spoke very politely, and led Shen Luo aside to sit down.
Seeing that he didn't take away the books she wrote, Shen Luo was very satisfied. It seems that this bookstore is still very well-behaved.
The waiter in the store quickly invited the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper is a man in his 50s, with a few strands of gray hair. It is probably because people in this world generally get old quickly. For many people, 50 years old is already an old man.
Unlike the shopkeepers elsewhere, this shopkeeper has no beard and a smooth chin, making him look ten years younger.
"Hello shopkeeper." Shen Luo stood up and bowed.
The shopkeeper returned a salute, stretched out his palms and said, "Sir, please sit down." His voice was very deep, and it didn't look like it should be at this age.
"Don't just stand there and pour tea for the customers." The shopkeeper sent the waiter away, and then looked at the book on the table in front of him.
"Is this the one?"
Shen Luo touched her nose in embarrassment, "Yes." I always felt that the stories I wrote would be read by others, and I would feel an inexplicable sense of shame.
"Can I take a look?" The shopkeeper asked with a smile on his face, seeing her nervousness without making a move.
"Of course." Shen Luo went all out, he had to pass this level, right?
The shopkeeper picked up the book from the table respectfully with both hands. This dynasty always respects scholars.
The shopkeeper opened the book, and at this moment the waiter brought a pot of tea and two teacups, poured tea into the cups, and then withdrew.
Holding the teacup in his hand, Shen Luo watched the shopkeeper immerse himself in the world depicted in the book.
Shen Luo was fidgeting for a while, wondering if his handwriting was sloppy, and wondering whether the choice of words and sentences met the requirements of this era?
She wrote in vernacular, and she didn't use too gorgeous words to describe it, so it was inevitable that she was a little unconfident.
Half an hour later, the shopkeeper finished turning over the last page, and still asked, "Are there any more?"
Shen Luo shook his head, "Here are all the finished ones. I didn't write much because I don't know if they are qualified or not."
The shopkeeper put down the book, pondered for a while, and said, "I think this book is very good, but I don't know if the customers will be satisfied. It's not like our bookstore was unanimously optimistic about it before, but the customers didn't buy it."
Shen Luo smiled and said nothing, she knew that the other party had taken a fancy to her book, and said these were just to lower the price.
"After printing it, we have the risk of losing money. I think so, if you want, I can buy this story for ten taels of silver."
"The book of ten taels?" Shen Luo raised his eyebrows.
The shopkeeper stretched out his right index finger and shook it, then clicked on the book, "The whole story of ten taels."
Twelve taels?Not enough food for her for a month!
"1000 taels!" Shen Luo smiled, now is the time to pay back the money by asking prices all over the sky.
The shopkeeper's face couldn't be tense, "Young master is too whimsical, no one in the whole capital would dare to open it at this price."
Shen Luo also said: "If you buy a million-word script for ten taels, don't you think it's too wild."
"This story has a million words?" the shopkeeper asked eagerly.
Shen Luo nodded, "Of course." She took the book on the table and shook it at the shopkeeper, "This is just the beginning of the story, the real sex is here." She pointed to her head.
In this era, a million words is already a gigantic work.For example, Mr. Changliu's [-]-character storybook is considered a long story.
After pretending to be coercive, Shen Luo took the book and left, "Okay, since the shopkeeper is not sincere, I will go to another house to have a look."
The shopkeeper hurriedly got up, "Come on, haven't we talked about this yet?"
Shen Luo turned her head and curled the corner of her mouth, "I won't agree without dividends."
Dividends are generally only given to those well-known authors, just to trap them. Shen Luoti's salary is not high, and the shopkeeper is not unacceptable.
The important thing is that this story is too novel, and the battle scenes depicted are immersive and exciting. The shopkeeper is sure that this is a rare and good work.
"You can get dividends, but it's impossible to get the same treatment as other gentlemen." The shopkeeper said the bottom line directly.
Shen Luo nodded, she could understand this, after all, she was a newcomer, so naturally she couldn't ask for the same treatment as the Great God.
"In this way, the first part will be paid according to the normal treatment, and then we will see the sales volume of this one, and then adjust if the sales volume is good." The shopkeeper said a plan that both of them could accept.
As for the poor sales, neither of them mentioned this.Wouldn't it be a bad idea to mention it?
Shen Luo agreed, and the shopkeeper said that the first batch of books would be sold in the bookstore in half a month, and told her to write the amount of the next book as soon as possible, and then personally sent her out.
Because it is a dividend, the account can only be settled once three months after the book is published.In other words, it will take three and a half months to get the income, and she has to live very tight in these three months.
This is not the life Shen Luo wants, she turned around and walked towards the horse market.
The horse market not only sells horses, but also livestock such as cattle and sheep, and the most important thing is to sell slaves. The slaves after the government ransacked their homes are basically sold here.
Shen Luo intends to sell a skilled servant back to cook three meals a day, which can also save some expenses. She has been envious of those fat chickens and fat rabbits in Houshan for a long time, and the two cats are fine at home. It's the same, just in time to go hunting and make a contribution to the family.
On the way to the horse market, when Shen Luo passed by an antique stall, she stopped suddenly.Turning around and squatting down, she pointed to a vase and asked, "How much is this?"
The stall owner's eyes lit up, "This young man has really good eyesight, this is..."
Shen Luo interrupted his bragging, "I know, this vase has been fired for at most ten years, I just think the pattern on this vase is pleasing to the eye, and there is only a vase missing in the study. Just a few streets."
The boss was stunned immediately, "Young master, your eyes are really sharp. If you want this vase, I will give you five taels of silver."
Shen Luo directly took out the broken silver in his pocket, "Do you want half a tael? It's only a hundred and eighty cash when I go to the porcelain shop."
"Yes, yes." The boss quickly took it over, and then muttered, "Young master, you really know how to bargain." But in fact, the boss secretly rejoiced in his heart. He picked up this vase in the wild, and poked it underneath The year title of the current emperor is worthless at all, and getting half a tael is already a big profit.
Shen Luo turned around holding the vase, and instead of going to the horse market, she went straight out of the city gate and went home.
The two cats thought that Shen Luo would come back with lunch and quickly circled around. Shen Luo gave the cat a kick, "I have no money, go to the back of the mountain to catch chickens and rabbits, from now on I have to provide food by myself."
The panther and chinchilla meowed in dissatisfaction, Shen Luo made a gesture to kick, and the two ran out rolling and crawling.
Shen Luo entered the room, closed the door, and knocked on the vase, "Come out!"
The vase did not move, and Shen Luo knocked again, "If you don't come out, I will break this vase."
At this time, a puff of blue smoke came out from the mouth of the vase, and a beautiful woman appeared in front of Shen Luo, "Young master, why do you threaten this slave, the slave can only hurt you when he comes out."
Shen Luo pulled a stool over and sat down, "Don't worry, even if you want to hurt evil, you won't be able to hurt evil."
The woman sensed it, and suddenly her eyes widened, "Young master is not human."
Shen Luo ignored her words, instead she tapped her fingers on the table and asked, "Can you cook?"
The woman nodded inexplicably, and Shen Luo immediately got up and clapped her hands, "That's good." Then she said to the woman: "I don't ask why you are in this vase, nor your identity before you were alive. Regularly provide Yin Qi for your cultivation, and you will be responsible for three meals a day at home, okay?"
The woman is a little confused.
Shen Luo seemed to remember something and asked, "By the way, what's your name?"
"You Rong, your slave's name is You Rong." The woman whispered.
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