Great Ming Dynasty Wen Chao Gong

Chapter 201 Heading to Guangdong Province
After some insincere gossip with Dong Qichang, Zhang Xiao lost interest, ignored Dong Qichang's invitation to stay a few more days, and hurried back to Hangzhou.

Of course, before leaving, Zhang Xiao still had a chat with the shopkeeper Wu he met before, but Zhang Xiao saw that shopkeeper Wu really didn't have the courage. Shopkeeper Wu said that he could run errands for himself and make some donations, but he really didn't dare to get involved in running newspapers, so he had to give up first.

Zhang Xiao, who returned to Hangzhou, found a house next to the West Lake and lived there. Zhang Xiao didn't care how much the rent was, since he didn't have to worry about money anyway.

The courtyard is also unique. There are not so many tourists in the West Lake now. Zhang Xiao looked at the scenery during the day. When he got tired from looking at the scenery, he came back to write. Later, he was too lazy to write the manuscript. He just read the manuscript for Lu Zhang and Li Zhizao to record. , in the end, I even just wrote an outline of the plot, and then let the two of them play it out.

Instead, Zhang Xiao took John around and asked John to paint a picture from time to time. Good paintings were rewarded heavily.

A few days later, when the full moon came again, Zhang Xiao had a rare conscience and asked everyone to take a rest and enjoy the moonlit night of the West Lake in peace.

"My boss, we can stay here in Hangzhou peacefully without going back to the capital?" Lu Zhang asked.

"Wenhua, do you want to go home and have a look? It's okay. You can go back at any time. Anyway, I am idle here. It doesn't make any difference if I write the book sooner or later. If the court needs me to do anything, Of course someone will make arrangements. If Zhang is not needed, there is nothing wrong with Zhang staying here for a while.

"Whatever my boss says, I will naturally follow him wherever he is. Thanks to my boss's many rewards, my family is living quite well now. My mother heard that you gave me so much money as my salary, and she was very excited. He told me directly that I would always follow my boss and that I should never forget my roots.”

"No, it's not that. In fact, you are still very talented. It's just that your luck in the imperial examination was a little bit worse. Zhang didn't give others money in vain. Since I can give you these wages, it means that you can do the work well. Worth the price.”

"But when I look at the male protagonist in this novel, he doesn't look like a leader no matter how I look at him. It feels like he is just a cover for being used by the martial arts bosses. After reading and writing this way, I feel that the protagonist is completely being used by others. He was led and pushed around, and because he had learned Feng Qingyang's martial arts, he was doubted and feared by his master. He met the daughter of the demon sect's director, Woxing, and was used by Xiang Wentian to save Ren Woxing. It was really frustrating to be coerced into leading a bunch of people to the Shaolin Temple to cause trouble in order to replace Ren Yingying in the fight for the leader of the Five Sacred Mountains, but to be defeated so easily by his own master. ." Li Zhizao was a little dissatisfied.

"If Lin Pingzhi is the protagonist, it will be a revenge story in the martial arts world. It can actually be written in this way, but it can also easily fall into clichés. Let Linghu Chong be the protagonist, so that there is a sense of contrast. A sect The senior brother originally only thought about his master’s biological daughter, who was also his junior sister, but he was inexplicably involved in the treacherous martial arts battles. Isn’t this easy to arouse the interest of readers? "

"Teacher, you only wrote the first 50,000 words of "Swordsman", and the rest were written by Wenhua and I. You are not afraid that we will mess up the writing." Li Zhizao said.

"Having said that, this novel has its ups and downs. When I read the beginning of this novel, I thought the protagonist was Lin Pingzhi. I didn't expect that the protagonist would only appear in the next few chapters."

"It doesn't matter. Both of you have good writing skills. You won't write badly. At most, your writing will be crooked. But since we have an outline, no matter how you write, it won't be crooked. As long as the general plot can be It doesn’t really matter if the specific paragraphs are more or less,” Zhang Xiao explained.

"The title of this book is Swordsman. It's not surprising that the protagonist is more open-minded and unrestrained." Zhang Xiao said.

"Dad, this is different. Originally, the protagonists of the book you wrote, like Guo Jing and Yang Guo, had doubts about which side they wanted to stand on because of their complicated life backgrounds. But after going through the story, I still stand firmly on the side of the Song Dynasty and fight against the Mongols. In those foreign novels, the Song of Cid is a historical figure of the Western Yi. It is not easy to say too much about the two protagonists in Assassin's Creed. Although I don't like his behavior that much, it can be seen that this person still adheres to the creed of the organization. As for Ezio, he was just a playboy at first, but with step by step experience, he has become a veritable leader. . But this Linghu Chong jumped back and forth between the so-called demonic path and the righteous path, and was still obsessed with the love of his children. If this novel had not given him so many adventures, he would have died on the spot," Li Zhizao analyzed. road.

"What you say makes sense, but in fact, aren't such protagonists more common in reality? On the contrary, there are fewer people who are single-minded. It is normal to play both sides." "Indeed, after following the teacher for several years, Not to mention anything else, not many of the students in the Imperial Academy study seriously during class, and the teachers don't dare to discipline them at all. If they really want to discipline them, they are afraid of being punished by these young masters. Revenge."

"People just teach for a living, and if the students go crazy, how can they really control it? When the heir apparent of the King of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty, after he became the King of Chu, he had his teacher executed because he was resentful of his teacher. It was too harsh to discipline yourself at that time. With such an example, who would not seek advantages and avoid disadvantages?" Zhang Xiao said with emotion.

But just when Zhang Xiao thought that such days could last for a long time, he was interrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest.

"Eunuch Fan has come all the way. This is a small thank you gift from Zhang." Zhang Xiao handed over the thank you gift very skillfully.

"The portion is quite large."

"Please rest assured, father-in-law, this is gold, not silver or copper."

"Gold?" No matter how greedy Eunuch Fan was, his expression changed.

"Hey, Zhang can still afford it for just a few taels of gold. Eunuch Fan came from such a far away place from the capital and brought His Majesty's holy will. Eunuch Chen, please don't take these gifts of gratitude to heart." Zhang Xiao said.

"What did Zhang Prince Consort say? Now that His Majesty has given the order, I would like to ask Prince Prince Consort Zhang to go south after you finish cleaning up."

"Your Majesty has a destiny, Zhang will definitely do his best to fulfill it." Zhang Xiao nodded quickly.

When Zhang Xiao got the imperial edict, even though Zhang Xiao just glanced at it with the corner of his eye, he could see the happy expressions of Lu Zhang and Li Zhizao.

Zhang Xiao secretly thought, it seems that everyone still wants to make progress, and he can't just be a salty fish all the time.

A month later, in a teahouse in Guangzhou City, Lu Zhang and Li Zhizao looked at Zhang Xiao who was enjoying a meal, and they looked at each other.

"My boss, are you from Guangdong Province? Why are you so happy to see you eating for the first time?" Lu Zhang couldn't help but ask.

"My hometown is in Guangdong Province, so the food is quite to my liking."

(End of this chapter)