I became famous for writing ridiculous stories in ancient times

Chapter 45



Fu Wenyu's stall was set up for the eighth day.

During this period, more than a hundred people came to him to write "wishes". Some hoped to get rich, some hoped that their families would be healthy and safe, some hoped that they or their families would pass the imperial examinations, and some even prayed for their sons and daughters, and asked someone to pay back their debts or they would die on the street.

These wishes were normal, bizarre, or varied.

Except for the one that "if you don't pay back your debts, you will die on the street", which Fu Wenyu felt was inappropriate and asked him to change it to "if you don't pay back your debts, you will break your legs when you go out", all the others were written.

Of course, there were also people who cursed others to death and wanted to seize other people's things, but Fu Wenyu ignored them.

And with the first printing of Liuzhou Tabloid, his business also reached a small peak. Even the poor "Brother You" who had two "Li Tea" at home came with ten taels of silver and gnashed his teeth and asked him to write a storybook, with only one condition, that is, the marriage was successfully cancelled and he was determined not to marry the green tea cousin.

"She has done nothing good in the past two or three years since she came to my house!"

"My concubine sister was originally a timid woman, but after she came, she was squeezed and depressed, and she lost weight. All the good things were taken away by her."

"But she doesn't even think she is wrong!"

"How can such a woman be a good match?"

Fu Wenyu agreed, "Indeed not, then what do you think?"

"The marriage is cancelled," Brother You said firmly: "She has been taken back by her family now. I don't care who she will marry in the future, but I will not marry her anyway."

"If anyone asks me to marry her, I will run away from home!"

Fu Wenyu: "..."

So he picked up a pen and recorded some basic information about the You family, preparing to choose a part to write in the storybook. Of course, in order to avoid trouble from the girl's family or even the You family, Fu Wenyu also made it clear to "Brother You". For this kind of storybook with many words, he can only write pseudonyms, and the details will not be consistent.

But the protagonist of the storybook will definitely break off the engagement with his green tea fiancée.

Although Brother You was somewhat unwilling and felt that this would be "insufficient in magic power", he still agreed after Fu Wenyu's persuasion. Before leaving, he kept reminding him that he must cancel the engagement.

In short, no matter how it was written, the engagement must be successfully canceled.

Fu Wenyu responded with "definitely", in fact, in his opinion, it didn't matter whether the story was written or not. As long as this "Brother You"'s attitude remained so firm, the marriage would definitely be canceled.

Who else could force the groom to get married?

But if the other party was willing to pay, he would not refuse.

As for whether the story would hurt the "green tea cousin" after it was written, he would deal with it slightly to minimize the impact. Moreover, the cousin had made a mistake when she used "tea words" to hurt others and seek benefits for herself. After the incident was exposed, she still did not repent. This story was just a lesson for her.

So in the next few days, Fu Wenyu wrote while setting up the stall, and finally finished this mini storybook of only 10,000 words. The main content of the whole storybook is that a rich man and his cousin's fiancee have different personalities, and can't stand each other's "tea talk", so he successfully broke off the engagement after revealing the other's true face.

Then he gave himself a vest.

—— Yin Yang Scholar

Of course, he would not be stupid enough to write such a storybook under his real name.

This was also discussed with the "Brother You" a few days ago. The two also signed a contract, stipulating the rights and obligations of both parties, and also stipulating that "Brother You" should not spread the matter.

As for Zhang Zhang and Zhang Er, they will also keep it secret for Fu Wenyu.

Looking at the new storybook "Green Tea Cousin" signed by "Yin Yang Scholar" on a new copy of Liuzhou Tabloid, Fu Wenyu smiled and said to Zhang Zhang: "Uncle Zhang, I didn't expect that what you said would be done so quickly."

The page of Liuzhou Tabloid has changed from one to two!

Two whole sheets of paper, and the price remains the same, five cents.

This is probably because the "advertisements" on it have also increased year-on-year, offsetting part of the cost.

The original three stories accounted for the majority of the Liuzhou tabloid, and street anecdotes, advertisements and poetry articles accounted for the rest. Now the length of the story has increased by 10,000 words, just enough to print the entire "Green Tea Cousin", while the proportion of street anecdotes and poetry articles remains the same, and the remaining part of the extra sheet is filled with the "wishes" of the people and the "advertisements" of the shops. '

That is to say, after the new version, the advertisements have increased, the length of the story has increased, and the proportion of street anecdotes and poetry articles has not changed. Today's copy may be related to more wishes of the people. Even the articles of scholars are gone, leaving only a few poems the size of tofu blocks.

Shopkeeper Zhang laughed and said, "They are starting to make money too."

"The Liuzhou tabloid can sell so much now, and even the twelve counties under Liuzhou, as well as merchants from Jiangzhou, Anzhou and other places come to buy it. This is all thanks to the storybook."

"I think printing two copies this time is a test, otherwise I wouldn't print your whole article. If it sells well, it will probably be like this in the future."

"This 'Liuzhou tabloid' is pretty good."

Fu Wenyu scanned it and gave an objective evaluation. The layout of today's tabloid has already appeared with division lines, big headlines, small text and other structures, which is closer to the newspapers of the Republic of China that he saw in the materials.

Of course, there are some differences. For example, the characters on the Liuzhou tabloid are relatively large, there are no pictures on both papers, and neither the paper nor the printing effect is as good as a real printing machine, etc.

For him, the best change is that the length of the storybook has been increased, so that six storybooks can be printed at a time. He even thought of an interesting thing, that is, if he has six vests in the future, he wonders if he can write an article for each vest, and then for a period of time, all of them will be printed with his own words.

That scene must have been very spectacular.

Fu Wenyu was thinking in his heart while looking through other places, but when he looked at it, he let out a sigh.

"The Story of the Green Hairpin has also been booked in advance?"

The "Qing Chai Ji" he mentioned was a story published in a Liuzhou tabloid together with his "Legend of the Divine Eye". Now the storybook "Legend of the Divine Eye" is coming to an end, but "The Story of the Green Hairpin" is relatively short. Looking at the description above, there are only one or two chapters left, so the bottom of the storybook is using an enlarged font to call out Readers went to Rongsheng Bookstore to pre-order and were told they would get it in three days.

Shopkeeper Zhang said: "Yes, this article was originally printed by Rongsheng Bookstore. Since the last two times, they have been saying that you can pay to read it in advance. I guess you have been too busy recently, so you haven't paid attention to it."

Fu Wenyu nodded. He has indeed been very busy recently.

On the one hand, he has to set up a stall at the entrance of the bookstore and help people write their wishes. On the other hand, he has to leave early and come back late to deal with curious tribesmen and relatives. The remaining time has to be divided between the printing room and keeping an eye on the progress of the hardcover edition. He was so busy that he wanted to find time to sort out his thoughts, but he didn't even have time to come up with a new version of the novel.

"It seems that bookstores in Liuzhou will have to ask customers to make reservations in advance if they sell storybooks in the future."

He sighed, and was about to turn to the street stories in the tabloid to see if there was anything new in Liuzhou recently, when he suddenly heard someone shouting outside the door.

"Where's Fu Wenyu?"

"Let him come out, let him come out quickly!"

Fu Wenyu was startled and looked out suddenly, and then found that in front of Zhang Er, who was guarding the stall for him, there were several tall, dark and thin men with excited expressions standing in front of him. They vaguely surrounded Zhang Er in a circle. .

What happened?

Just now because he wanted to read today's new Liuzhou tabloid, he asked Zhang Er to help look at the stalls at the door, while he walked into the bookstore. But now when he saw such a scene, he immediately put down the tabloid and walked out quickly.

Shopkeeper Zhang also followed out.

Both of them were thinking, don't come looking for trouble.

But one wish only received one hundred cents. After such a long time, only the wealthy brother You was willing to spend a huge sum of ten taels of silver to write a mini storybook, and the others were all one hundred cents. Moreover, he had already screened out those with extreme temperaments when writing his wishes.

A mere hundred cents won't make people come to your door to find trouble, right?

Just as he was thinking about it, Fu Wenyu had already walked out.

And among the group of dark and thin men, one of them lit up when he saw him, and he showed his white teeth happily, "Hahaha, Mr. Fu has finally met you!"

"I'm Li Si!"

"Li Si from Liuzhou City, do you still remember?"

"More than ten days ago, I heard that Granny Wang in Chen County picked up a stone on the roadside. After breaking it open, she found a piece of jade inside, so I decided to go to Chen County with a few brothers to try my luck. Before setting off, I heard "Sir, you are here, so I asked you to write that I picked up a big piece of jade in Chen County, which is bigger than the one in Mrs. Wang's house."

Hearing this, Fu Wenyu's pupils shrank.

Could it be?

Sure enough, Li Si raised his voice and said happily: "I went to Chen County with a few brothers and found that every household in Chen County had people coming out to pick up stones. They had already picked up all the stones on the roadside. But they couldn't pick them away. "

"Since we can't find stones where there are people, my brothers and I go to places where there are no people. We go to those rivers and those mountains to look for them. If we see something that we are satisfied with, we will smash it with a hammer."

“It turned out to be really found!”

"Ha ha ha ha--"

Fu Wenyu: "...!!!"

He couldn't control his expression and asked in a trembling voice: "You, have you really found the jade?"

Oh my God, how could I really find it?

Could it be that there really was a jade mountain in Chen County, so one and two of them found jade? !

"Yes," Li Si and the brothers around him said one after another: "We will search among the big rocks, because Mr. Fu, you wrote that we will find a big rock."

"Yes, yes, we don't even look at the little rocks."

"When you find a big rock, you smash it. If you don't find one, use another one. Each of us brings a big hammer. We can smash the rocks very quickly. We can smash dozens of rocks in a day, but we are exhausted."

"Don't be afraid if you are tired. After all, Mr. Fu, you wrote that we will find the jade."

"Yes, don't be afraid if you are tired. Making money is not important."

"We ate solid food when we were hungry, drank mountain spring water when we were thirsty, and lay down in the grass to sleep for a while when we were tired. We worked hard like this for more than ten days, even the top of the mountain was changed several times, and finally we found jade!"

"A big chunk!!"

Speaking of this, they also said regretfully: "It's a pity that we smashed too hard at first. The people at the jade shop said that the damage was better, so they only gave us three hundred taels. But three hundred taels is not bad, each of us can divide fifty taels." Two. I am so tired that I have become darker and thinner. My daughter didn’t even recognize me after I came back last night.”

"My brat is the same, and he asked me who I am hahaha..."

"By the way, Mr. Fu, a few of us came together today to tell you the good news. We also brought you the most popular stone cake in Chen County. Although this cake is dry and hard, it is just like the stone. It cannot be chewed without soaking in water. Don’t move. But we ate these pancakes during the days we were looking for jade, which made you happy.”

"Mr. Fu, thank you very much!"

Fu Wenyu: “…….”

Three hundred taels...

One person actually got fifty taels? !

With this kind of luck, not to mention the people who were gradually surrounding him, even Fu Wenyu, Shopkeeper Zhang and Zhang San couldn't help but look at him sideways. Of course, some of the people's eyes fell on Li Si and others, while the other part stared at Fu Wenyu intently, as if they wanted him to write a wish for themselves immediately.

Fortunately, jade is the most attractive.

Someone asked: "If that's the case, then why are you back? Why don't you find a few more pieces?"

"No way," Li Si sighed regretfully when he mentioned this: "We were not the only ones who found jade on that mountain. There were probably three or four pieces of jade found. There were too many people and the commotion was too great, so now the government We have already sent people to surround the mountain, saying that it will be reported to the court and no one is allowed to open the stone at will."

"Violators will be sent to jail!"

The people who were watching also sighed with regret, "So that's how it is. They are surrounded and can't open the stone. Otherwise, I would have looked for it. If there are not three hundred taels, then a hundred taels would be good."

"It's a pity, it's such a pity."

"Yeah yeah."

"What a pity. I would have known that I would have gone to Chen County a few days ago."

Amidst the cries of pity, Fu Wenyu suddenly felt his shoulder being tapped. When he looked back, he found Brother You who was looking excited and breathing heavily.

The brother You in front of me must have been running all the way. He was breathing hard and said excitedly: "Break off, break off the engagement, Mr. Fu, my cousin's family has agreed to break off the engagement!"!

"Mr. Fu, you are so awesome!"

Fu Wenyu: "...?"

No way, one or two dreams come true, does he really have any special powers? !


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