The prince does not fight for the heir

Chapter 110
Rumors continued to spread in Beijing and China, but as the Dragon Boat Festival approached, people's attention was distracted a lot.

The imperial court is resting again, and there are corresponding poetry gatherings, tea parties, receptions, flower viewing parties and other gatherings frequently overlapping in various places in Beijing. The Xie family said a few days ago that Fu Rushuang should be brought to attend. reunion.

The river outside the city began to be controlled by sections, and a dragon boat race was planned to be held. There were many applicants, and the people were all ready early. At that time, it was necessary to go to participate in Qu Yuan's sacrifice, and play a few dragon boat games by the way.

Fu Yuchen is a lively person. He has already made an appointment with his friends to watch the dragon boat race. He just waited for the time to go out. He also said that he would go to the literary club on the way, reunite with the old classmates of Guozixue, and return It's hard to decide.

In addition, Fu's mansion is the same as other houses. Early in the morning, he ordered his servants to sweep and clean all over the mansion, smoked wormwood, hung calamus, and steamed rice dumplings. Everyone even had to take medicinal baths.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Fu Xuechen woke up naturally after sleeping, but when he woke up, he found that Fu Yuchen had run away early in the morning, and Mrs. Xie also took Fu Rushuang out to a tea party at some unknown house. If he has lost his friend, maybe he will go out when his friend arrives.

Fu Xuechen was depressed, if it wasn't for the Dragon Boat Festival, and the teacher of the teaching workshop was also busy, maybe Mrs. Xie had found a female teacher who could teach her Guzheng at this moment, then she could start to get in touch with ancient music notation at this moment, and wash away her future generations A talented woman who can even play the piano is forced to become tone-deaf.

Or follow Mrs. Xie and Fu Rushuang to eat melons and watch the scenes of ancient blind dates. It is also very interesting. Unfortunately, Mrs. Xie felt that she was still young, far from the age of meeting people, and it was not suitable to be involved, so she refused to bring her along. go.

What should she do?Fu Xuechen recalled it carefully, and found that the original owner's way of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival was very simple, not much different from usual, reading books, practicing handwriting, and occasionally interacting with his boudoir partner was over.

The headed wives of each family and each mansion can hold various gatherings with hidden blind dates, and the young ladies of each family can actually initiate invitations to invite their familiar friends to their homes to play.

Just when Fu Xuechen had nothing to do and didn't know how to pass the time, the big maid Fu Rong sent her two fragrant posts, one was Fu Xuechen's former owner's best friend, Chen Wei, the second daughter of the Zhenxihou Mansion. The other one was fresher, and it was sent by Cui Xiaoyue from the Shangshu family of the household department.

In Fu Xuechen's impression, Chen Wei is a girl with a round face and almond eyes who looks very lucky. She is the same age as her, and she especially likes to talk to her. Since she has experienced "drowning disease" and "calf fracture" for more than half a year, It was Chen Wei who cared most about her, not only giving gifts, but also visiting the mansion.

Fu Xuechen has a good impression of the original owner's best friend, but she is not the original owner, and she is inevitably guilty of facing the original owner's best friend, so she has become estranged a lot recently.

Cui Xiaoyue quickly became acquainted with her after the last spring search. Before that, Cui Xiaoyue, as the second generation of Wen in the literati circle, had never been in contact with a noble girl like her, and rarely interacted with her.

Therefore, the invitation that Cui Xiaoyue sent to her even surprised the maid Furong.

Fu Xuechen thought about it for a while, but was still not sure about facing the original owner's best friend Chen Wei, so he imitated the original owner's handwriting and tone of reply and declined Chen Wei's invitation, saying that he would invite him to the house to play after his leg injury was healed.

Cui Xiaoyue's side is considered to be the second-generation lady in the literati circle. It was the first time that she offered an olive branch to her, a descendant of martial arts. Yes, in terms of poetry skills, if she goes to hang out with these second-generation girls, she will probably lose face.

After thinking about it for a while, Fu Xuechen finally excused that he had accepted the invitation of the noble lady in the Wu Xun circle, and he was too busy to do so, so he declined Cui Xiaoyue's reply politely, and apologized that if there was a next time, he would definitely come.

Fu Rong took her written reply and was speechless for a while: "Miss, haven't you gone out for the past two days?"

What can I do?Fu Xuechen was also depressed. A woman had to report to her family when she went out. The invitation she received was the proof. The housekeeper would equip her with a car and horse for going out according to the identity of the inviting party and the meeting place. The guards, the personal maids will follow, and even take the mother.

In this era when it is particularly unsafe for girls to go out alone, these are the protective measures that rich families have for girls at home, which can prevent girls from being abducted, robbed, and cheated to the greatest extent.

That's why Fu Xuechen misses the days when he could go out at will with Fu Yuchen's identity openly and aboveboard, without having to bring so many burdensome attendants, go out as soon as he says he wants to go out, and find excuses at will.

Fu Xuechen wanted to go out, but not to play, but to visit her own bookstore. These days, she has written the specific plot outline of the first part of Legend of Sword and Fairy, and by the way, she also discovered two new novels from the manuscript If she hadn't regained her identity as a woman now, she would have gone directly to the bookstore as Fu Yuchen according to her past habits.

Thinking of the bookstore, thinking of Fu Yuchen, Fu Xuechen couldn't sit still, and called Furong to help him redress, put on the men's clothes that were left in the closet, and redressed as Fu Yuchen.

Fu Chuanyi was in the study, and was entertaining himself by arranging the endgame of the chess game in his spare time, when he saw his "son" rushing in like a gust of wind: "Father! I want to go out for a while, can you let me out?"

"Didn't you go out early in the morning?"

After Fu Chuanyi finished speaking in surprise, he looked up and realized that the person looking at him with a smile in front of him was Fu Yuchen!It was clearly Fu Xuechen who was disguised as a man again, but luckily this time he did not go to the palace to study with her. Fu Xuechen did not deliberately imitate Fu Yuchen's make-up any more. There were some differences in facial features and eyebrows, which made her look more beautiful and delicate, so Fu Chuanyi could recognize it.

Fu Chuanyi had a headache: "What are you doing again? It's over! What are you thinking about still dressed like this?"

"Father, I'm not out to play, I have serious business!"

Fu Xuechen told her father the purpose of her trip to deal with the follow-up business of the bookstore. Although she is the real new owner of the bookstore, "Fu Yuchen" has always been the one who has come forward, and it will take time to change. , and suddenly took over the bookstore as the hostess, which is very inappropriate during the busy time of the Dragon Boat Festival.

What she said was well-founded, and Fu Chuanyi was used to her being Fu Yuchen's two months of success without incident, so he couldn't stand her repeated pleas, and finally agreed.

"You can go out to do errands like this if you want, but you must bring your servants with you, and try your best to go back home after finishing your errands, and don't hang out outside." Fu Chuanyi reminded: "Just let Fu An follow you! Yuchen this morning He went out with another follower of his, and Fu An was supposed to be resting today, so he had no choice but to let him rest for the time being."

"Understood!" Fu Xuechen nodded again and again, and said happily: "I knew that Daddy loved me!"

Fu Chuanyi gave her a helpless look, and sure enough, someone called Fu An and told him a few words, but asked him to take care of the young lady and so on, and Fu An solemnly agreed to everything.

Before going out, Fu Xuechen asked Fu Rong to take out the reward money and gave it to Fu An: "It's rare to have a rest day, and you have to run errands because of me, so you can take the reward money! It's your compensation."

"Miss Xie, thank you!" Fu An responded with a smile, not showing any reluctance.

He is one of the servants who knew about the brother-sister exchange, and he followed Fu Xuechen for two months to do the big deception. Instead, he got used to the little master in the family, and even because of admiration, trust, and self-feeling of the heavy responsibility to protect him For other reasons, he loves Fu Xuechen even more in his heart.

This feeling is quite complicated, so complicated that he has even thought about it, if Fu Xuechen gets married in the future, if he is appointed to have a child in his family as a dowry, I am afraid that instead of being unwilling, he will be secretly happy.

"Let's go! Go to the bookstore!" Fu Xuechen asked Fu An to take all the manuscripts, and walked out of the mansion in such a high spirited and happy manner. It was different from the past. Women disguised themselves as men and went out to inspect the shop under their name. When they passed by and saw her, they all had smiles on their faces, either secretly funny, or dumbfounded.

Panlong Bookstore, the store was full of people.

The wonderful story books that have been published for a whole month have unknowingly gained its popularity in the literati circle, and the comfortable environment of the bookstore has even attracted literati who love books to come to visit when they have nothing to do.

Whenever a new episode of the same series of classic stories is put on the bookshelf, it is tantamount to starting another round of happy panic buying by literati, and even this kind of happiness is not limited to literati, even booksellers from other places, as well as in teahouses The storytellers in teahouses who rely on storytelling for a living also know that there is such a bookstore that specializes in characteristic scripts, and frequently come to buy them.

On the other hand, the so-called "No. [-] Book Building", which occupies a larger area and is more elegantly decorated, has gradually become desolate. The shopkeepers and clerks inside often have to stay in the shop where the flow of people is getting thinner, sitting in a sad city.

It's very relieved!Fu Xuechen even received advice from shopkeeper Liu of his own bookstore, that he could start preparing funds and plan to take over this "No. [-] Bookstore".

Fu Xuechen didn't know much about how to operate to acquire other bookstores in ancient times. Fortunately, she didn't need to understand as an owner. Account audits and decisions about funding and major direction are fine.

Satisfied to see that the bookstore was operating normally and full of vitality, Fu Xuechen made a round of inspection, then walked through the back door on the first floor and directly entered the yard behind the building.

The yard has been refurbished and taken care of, and it has a new look. There is a jujube tree, a set of tables, chairs and tea sets under the tree. When the sun is shining, the shade of the tree has become a good place to talk to customers about business.

The shopkeeper, Liu She, handed over the affairs of the store to his nephew for temporary handling, and followed up in the yard by himself, actively trying to replace Fu Xuechen with a clean teacup, and made new high-quality tea.

Fu Xuechen didn't talk nonsense, took the selected Xinhua manuscript from Fu An, and handed it to Liu She.

"These two new manuscripts are very good! You can ask them to sign the contract." Fu Xuechen said: "The new script should be printed as soon as possible... The other manuscripts are not as good as these two, you can choose some of them to sign the script , don’t rush to sign someone.”

Liu She is the first reviewer of these new manuscripts. He took the manuscript and saw it clearly: "Sure enough, these two people are actually not newcomers. In this world, these two people are rare. Fame, but their traces are quite elusive, so I have never heard of a bookstore where they have a regular cooperation."

oh!In other words, these two people heard the reputation of their own bookstore, so they came to submit manuscripts out of curiosity?
"Can you sign someone?" Fu Xuechen couldn't help asking.

Liu She didn't dare to guarantee it: "It's completely fine to sign the script alone, but the person who signed it... is only [-]% sure."

Fu Xuechen looked at the two manuscripts in his hand again, one of which was similar to reasoning to solve a case. The background was ordinary citizens in Beijing who were involved in a case due to various coincidences. They were arrested, interrogated several times, and released due to insufficient evidence. This kind of reversal burned brains, and finally the truth of the case came to light.

Another fusion similar to Liaozhai and The Legend of White Snake, which has ghosts and foxes, traditional family stories, and a thought-provoking feeling.

What Fu Xuechen likes more is the one who writes reasoning. His writing style is more straightforward, and he wins thanks to the ingenious plot structure. Most of the online novels that are closer to the later generations are not nonsense, but directly tell the story.

As for the one who wrote about feelings, his style of writing is more beautiful, and it feels soul-stirring to read, but at the same time, the structure of his article is very traditional, and the words and sentences in some places are unavoidably obscure, and he can't understand it without any level of writing.

Fu Xuechen tapped twice on the manuscript of reasoning and solving the case, and said, "Try to sign this one."

"Understood!" Liu She agreed, but said with a smile: "This man is [-]% sure of signing a cooperation contract, and with such plainly written vernacular writing, I am afraid that other than us, no other family would dare to sign a cooperation contract with him lightly. "

Then asked: "Do I need to specify their pen names and commission creations?"

Fu Xuechen shook her head: "No need! The pen name is up to them. When there is no task, they can write whatever they want and when they want to write. Anyway, the guaranteed monthly salary is only paid for three months. If they don't continue to create, there will be no follow-up monthly salary."

Fu Xuechen took out the detailed outline of Immortal Sword One: "Give this to He Ci and ask him to write this."

"This old slave can save me!" Liu She took the manuscript carefully and put it away solemnly.

Fu Xuechen casually gossiped: ""The Legend of the White Snake" was finished at the end of last month, so He Ci has been busy lately, right?"

"It's a little free." Liu She said with a smile: "Mr. He came to the shop the day before yesterday to ask if there were any new tasks. At that time, the old slave also said that there was no new news. The Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and Mr. He is busy participating in organizing the Huaben Teachers' Literature Association, and this task will have to wait until the day after tomorrow at the earliest."

"The teacher of Huaben also has a literary club?"

Fu Xuechen was amazed that in this era, despite the fact that scriptures are blooming everywhere and are very popular, the status of masters of scriptures is very low. Although there are many scholars, recruiters, or willing to write scriptures for fun or money, no one is willing to expose themselves Their real identities are all using pseudonyms.

In this case, can there still be a Huaben Teachers' Association?These literati who hide their heads and show their tails and write scripts, dare to organize a literary society to show their faces?Aren't you afraid of being underestimated and made fun of by people who know your true identity?

(End of this chapter)