Chapter 42
"Really? Really?"
"Did you really sell it for five hundred taels? Good guy, that's five hundred taels!"
"With so much money, I really made a fortune."
After that table of people who were suspected to be from Chen County hurriedly checked out and left, followed by several more tables of people who hurriedly left, the remaining guests in Fugui Restaurant continued to talk for a long time.
They discussed the lucky 'grandma' and guessed what she would do after receiving such a large sum of money. Some people say that you can buy a house or land, some people say that you can buy slaves, and some people say that you should use part of it to do good deeds, and the rest can be bought for stones, just like Li Lei in the storybook.
When the storybook was mentioned, everyone remembered another thing.
Someone asked: "Speaking of the storybook, the "Legend of the Divine Eye" seems to have been written by Fu Wenyu, the person who previously wrote the storybook about Tang Yuan's wife changing his son, right?"
Someone else replied: "No, no, you remembered it wrong."
"The story book was in the front, and Tang Yuanwai found that his son was replaced in the back. I heard what Tang Yuanwai said with my own ears. He relied on the story book to find his biological son. I still have a story book at home. , If it weren’t for that script, Mr. Tang would probably have spent his whole life raising other people’s sons.”
The person who asked the question took a breath of cold air, "The story book about changing the son is in the front, and the son found by Tang Yuanwai is in the back? Doesn't that mean that Fu Wenyu has already written two story books that will come true?!"
"Isn't he a god?!!!"
Everyone: "..."
After a while, someone whispered: "It seems, it seems so."
Another person said: "That Fu Wenyu, after writing "The True and False Young Master", Tang Yuanwai found out that his son had been replaced. When he wrote "The Legend of the Divine Eye", the jade was cut out of the stone that Wang Po picked up. "
"Yes, it's all come true."
"hiss--"
"Oh my god!!"
Someone exclaimed in surprise, "If this is the case, wouldn't it mean that someone would get something based on the content of the storybook based on what he wrote? But that's not right. Tang Yuanwai's son was replaced five years ago, and today the king Po, her stone wasn’t picked up recently.”
Someone else retorted, "But in other words, if what he writes can really come true, I will be willing to wait for a few years. Write about me making a fortune now, and I will really make a fortune in three to five years."
"...It seems good."
"That makes sense!"
"Hey, do any of you know this 'Fu Wenyu'?" "Who is Fu Wenyu?"
"I don't know you..."
"Perhaps you can go to Kaiyuan Bookstore and ask. They must know."
"The book "The True and False Young Master" last time was sold at Kaiyuan Bookstore. And recently I also heard that "Legend of the Divine Eye" has been finished and will be sold out soon, also at Kaiyuan Bookstore."
"With such a close relationship, it's impossible for them to know nothing."
"Yes, they must know!"
Amidst the noise, the table of 'Brother Li' also started a heated discussion.
"And Brother You, haven't you forgotten Brother You? As we just mentioned, Brother You also has 'Li Cha' at home, and there are two of them, so Brother You, like that Wang Po, belongs to the realm of talking. Really?"
"It seems so."
"If it weren't for this story, Brother You would still be kept in the dark."
"Let's go, let's tell Brother You to go."
"Let's go together."
Fu Wenyu was very surprised after the man rushed in and shouted. Now after hearing the words of the guests in the restaurant, as well as 'Brother Li' and others at the table next to him, their expressions quickly turned solemn.
For a moment, he really wondered if he had any special powers. Otherwise, why would he find something similar in reality in the first book and then again in the second?
This is unscientific!
But the progress of the matter was too late for him to think too much, because now many people in the restaurant were talking about "Fu Wenyu", and even shouted "Who knows Fu Wenyu", trying to find him.
It didn't matter if someone found him, he didn't intend to hide it for the rest of his life. But the situation is different now. Wang Po's sudden wealth will inevitably make his circle of readers muddy. These people who shouted "Who knows Fu Wenyu" were not all his readers before, and they were not necessarily friendly.
At this time, he heard Fu Rong curiously say: "Brother, are they talking about you? The story you wrote has come true again. This time, jade is cut out of the stone?"
Before he could answer, Ms. Zhou frowned and said, "Rong'er, don't say such things."
Then she looked at Fu Wenyu, who had a solemn face, patted his hand and said: "Don't think too much, let's leave here first and go home. Otherwise, if they find out that you wrote the story, then we will leave No more.”
Fu Wenyu nodded.
He restrained his solemn expression, and then said: "Mom, I will send you to Li's house first. As for me, I will not be able to go back until later, because I have to go to Shopkeeper Zhang and the others to discuss how to deal with this matter."
The increasingly excited expressions and words of the people in the restaurant gave him a bad feeling.
He remembered that someone in modern times said that the best handling time for crisis public relations is twenty-four hours. This issue was also a public relations crisis for him. So he must cool down the heat in the last day or two, otherwise he has a hunch that Wang Po's incident will inevitably lead to very terrible consequences that he cannot imagine!
After all, not every family will be "replaced", but everyone certainly wants to get rich.
So the three returned to the Li family again.
Lady Li and Li Xin were a little surprised that the three came back, but after listening to Fu Wenyu's story and his guess, their expressions became serious.
Lady Li frowned and said, "It's really not right to go on like this."
"As the saying goes, 'gossip can melt gold, and accumulated criticism can destroy bones'. If everyone thinks that what Wenyu wrote will come true in the future, it will not be a good thing for Wenyu."
"I've seen such things before."
She thought carefully, with a hint of disgust on her face, "In the early years, there was a blind fortune teller in the capital, and everyone said that he was very accurate. So he calculated one thing, two things, and three things correctly..."
"At first, his reputation was only spread in the market. , but then it spread more and more. So there were officials in the court, and even princes and nobles, who came to him to ask for fortune-telling. There was even a time when what he said was more useful than your majesty's, so one day, his body appeared in the river. "
Li Xin looked at her worriedly and whispered, "Mother..."
Hearing her daughter's voice, the resentful expression on Li's face faded, and she patted her daughter's hand and whispered, "Don't worry, it's all over, mother is fine."
The Fu family didn't pay attention to the movements of Li's mother and daughter.
Because Zhou and Fu Rong were pale at this time, they looked at Fu Wenyu with worried expressions.
Fu Wenyu was still calm.
He was worried about this before, so he wanted to calm things down quickly while everyone hadn't formed this fixed concept. It would be best if this happened again in the future, and everyone would not think that he had any special abilities, but attributed everything to coincidence.
Otherwise, I'm afraid the whole family will have to hide their names in the future.
So he said, "Aunt, mother, don't worry, I will solve this matter now. It doesn't matter if I can't solve it. At worst, I will never write a storybook again, or our family will move to another place."
"After a few years, everyone will forget about this matter."
Mrs. Li nodded slowly, "That's good."
"Then Sister Zhou, and Rong'er, you stay here first. I think it will be lively outside for a while. If you go home at this time, if someone comes to look for Wenyu, I'm afraid they will be scared."
Mrs. Zhou smiled bitterly, "Then trouble you."
After settling Zhou and Fu Rong, Fu Wenyu said goodbye.
But when he walked quickly to the door, Li Xin's voice suddenly came from behind.
"Wait, wait..."
"Brother Fu, wait a minute--"
Fu Wenyu looked back in surprise, "Miss Li, what's wrong?"
Li Xin obviously ran over quickly, and after stopping, she panted, "I, I want to say," she took a deep breath, breathing slowly, and then said seriously: "I want to say that you should not take this matter lightly, and you should also take to heart the blind fortune-telling thing my mother just said."
She pursed her lips and said: "This matter, this matter is true, my mother suffered a great loss from him when she was in the capital. Even my father, my father is no exception."
Fu Wenyu: "...???"
He could hardly hide his surprised expression. If he remembered correctly, Zhou had told him before that 'Miss Li is from Jiangnan, because her husband died early, so she came to Liuzhou alone with her children'.
But now Li Xin said 'when my mother was in the capital', which means that Miss Li once lived in the capital. And from what she said just now, it was vaguely revealed that her father was also in the capital, and seemed to be still alive.
Because when you mention a person, the tone is different whether that person is alive or dead.
For example, 'my father is in the capital' and 'my father's family is in the capital' are two different concepts.
Because the former means that 'father' is not dead and is still alive, so it is 'my father is in the capital'. But the latter has the concept of 'father is dead, but father's family is in the capital', which is different.
At this moment, Fu Wenyu's keen intuition cultivated by writing dog-blood articles for many years told him that something was wrong. Li Niangzi and Li Xin, mother and daughter, are definitely not as simple as Zhou described to him. Otherwise, Li Niangzi's expression would not be disgusted when she mentioned the capital just now.
Is there a big pot of dog-blood waiting ahead?
Fu Wenyu thought with complicated thoughts.
But now is not the time to think about these things, he thanked her solemnly, "Thank you for reminding me, I will pay attention. I will go to Zhang first, I have thought of a way to solve this matter."
Li Xin asked curiously, "What do you have in mind?"
She really couldn't hide her curiosity, because according to her mother, after she suffered a loss at the hands of the 'blind fortune teller', she did think of a way to crack it, but she didn't get a good result. This is also the reason why she chased out to remind him today, because she just saw Fu Wenyu was confident, so she was eager to know the answer.
She wanted to know what to do when encountering such a thing, which was very important to her.
But Fu Wenyu kept it a secret, "The matter has not been resolved yet, I can't tell you, you will know in a few days. Now I can only say that at this time, there are not so many miracles, there are only coincidences."
He smiled at her, then turned and went out.
He had to race against time with those curious people and discuss a charter with Zhang first, so that this matter could be solved smoothly. As for how to solve it, he actually had an idea.
After all, the only thing that can hide water is the sea.
When Fu Wenyu came to Kaiyuan Bookstore, someone had already come to inquire.
Zhang Er was very anxious, "Mr. Fu is not here, he is really not here!"
A tall customer kept insisting, "Then where is his home? I'll go to his home to look for him. He can't be at home, right? It doesn't matter if he's not at home. I'll wait at his home."
"Anyway, I must see him, you can't even try to hide him!"
Zhang Er wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked, "What do you want from him?"
"Let him write that I will make a fortune!"
The guest straightened his chest and said confidently, "Don't you know, Mr. Fu's words have come true again. News just came that there was an old woman selling pickles in Chen County, and she actually got the stone from the top of her pickle jar. Go up and cut out such a big piece of jade.”
He made a big circle with his hand and said decisively: "Sold for five hundred taels! I came here just to ask Mr. Fu to write in his next storybook that I made a fortune."
"It's just a matter of one sentence. Mr. Fu won't refuse, right?"
Zhang Er: "..."
He made a serious face and said, "Go, go, go!"
"As I said, Mr. Fu is not here. Sir, if you don't want to buy the book, please go out and don't delay our business. Our boss is Tang Yuanwai. Do you know Tang Yuanwai?"
"If you keep messing around, I'm going to kick you out."
Tang Yuanwai was one of the nobles in Liuzhou City.
No one dares to offend a shop with the support of officials from the Tang Dynasty.
So the guest went out angrily, but when he walked to the door, he didn't forget to poke his head in and say harsh words, "I'll come back tomorrow. Please ask Mr. Fu to wait for me. This is a big deal for me!"
"Big deal that can make you rich!"
Fu Wenyu came in at this time. When he saw Zhang Er looking at him in surprise, he immediately raised his index finger and made a gesture telling him to keep his voice down or even make no sound.
Zhang Er shut his mouth tightly, and after the guest left, he pulled Fu Wenyu and whispered: "Why are you here? Do you know that three waves of guests just came to see you?"
"Why did Mrs. Wang of Chen County cut out a jade stone from the stone she used to press pickles at home? It was exactly the same as the one in the storybook. They thought that everything you wrote would come true. Three or two of them came to see you! "
Fu Wenyu also lowered his voice, "I'm here to solve this matter."
Zhang Er was curious, "How to solve it?"
Fu Wenyu didn't answer him, but turned around and asked, "Where's Uncle Zhang?"
"Oh, ask my uncle. My uncle has gone to the printing room and will probably come back after a while. Why don't you..." Zhang Er suddenly looked stern, pushed Fu Wenyu and said: "Hide quickly. Someone is coming."
"The two of them talking happily as they walk into the house are probably here to find you. I've seen two or three of them today. You should hide quickly."
When Fu Wenyu turned around, he found two people walking towards him. One of them pointed at the bookstore and said something to the other person. Both of them looked cheerful.
Although the other party most likely did not recognize him, Fu Wenyu thanked Zhang Er and hid in the inner room.
Sure enough, as soon as the two people entered the door, they asked: "Fu Wenyu, Mr. Fu, are you here?"
"We heard that what he wrote came true, so we came to see him to find out something about him. I wonder if he is here now?"
"Mr. Fu is not here."
Hearing that Fu Wenyu was not here, the two looked at each other and did not give up. Instead, they asked again: "We have something to see Mr. Fu. Can your store introduce him to you?"
Zhang Er did not agree and sent the person away nicely, but not long after, someone came again...
"Is Mr. Fu here?"
"We are here to find him. A piece of jade was found in the house of Mrs. Wang in Chen County. I heard that she found it after listening to Mr. Fu's words. Mr. Fu is not honest. Why wouldn't such a good thing be given to us in Liuzhou City? Woolen cloth……"
"What, he's not here now, so when will he be here?"
"Our brothers have something to do with him. Oh, don't worry about what we have to do with him..." The visitor had an unclear attitude and spoke in a nasty voice. In the end, Zhang Er persuaded him to leave on the pretext of moving out of Tang Yuanwai.
Then Zhang Er and Fu Wenyu looked at each other and smiled bitterly at the same time.