Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Boss Lin was also a scholar, and even got the honor of a scholar.When he was studying in his early years, because he spent too much energy on miscellaneous subjects such as poetry, poetry, storytelling, storytelling, and folk art, he was reluctant to write stereotyped essays.

After taking part in the township examination, he failed repeatedly, so he gave up the idea of ​​becoming an official, and relied on the country's preferential policies for scholars to open a bookstore and become a Confucian businessman.

After working in this line of work, Boss Lin thinks that his ability to appreciate literature is still very good.Su Mu's seven-character quatrains may not be very remarkable at first hearing, especially the first two sentences.Compared with Tang poetry, Zhenruo is much worse in terms of words and atmosphere.Only got its magnificent fur.

But if this poem is placed in the present, compared with the poets of the same age, it is an outstanding and first-rate work.

Especially the sentence "The east wind blows thousands of miles overnight, and the poor catkins are already flying, which is even more open-minded.

Not bad, really well written.

Boss Lin's heart suddenly moved. It is no wonder that a person who can write such poems can win the first place in the county test. Maybe the words he wrote are not unworthy of reading.

So, he stretched out his hand and picked up Su Mu's manuscript from the wastebasket.

The reason why Boss Lin refused to accept the manuscript before was because the homogenization of novels nowadays is too serious. If it is a work of no one, you will lose one if you publish it.Although he turns a blind eye to poor scholars stealing his books, it doesn't mean that he doesn't love money and has no business acumen.

On the contrary, having done so many businessmen, I have a more morbid addiction to yellow and white things than ordinary people.As for allowing colleagues to steal a few books of Ziyue Shiyun and spread them, it is also an elegant thing.

For this reason, Boss Lin is more willing to release things from well-known authors who have been tested by the market.Even those who have only studied for a few years and want to make a fortune by coding are mostly insensitive.

If Su Mu's writing is still sloppy, he might as well accept it first.Judging from his appearance, he is also very distressed, otherwise he would not be able to sell calligraphy for a living.

Now that Su Mu has just won the first place in the county examination, his poem is estimated to spread throughout Baoding in a few days, so it is certain that this kid is going to be famous now.

As long as he prints his book and vigorously publicizes that it is the novel of the young genius Su Mu, under the celebrity effect, it should be able to sell well.

Of course, how long this reputation will last is hard to say.But as long as you hurry up and print the book in a short period of time, you can buy thousands of copies, so you can make a small profit.

Thinking of this, Boss Lin didn't feel complacent about his business acumen.

So I settled down and read Su Mu's manuscript.

Just two pages into the novel, Boss Lin called out bad luck: The writing is good, but this novel is so weird that it uses a macaque as the main character.If it is printed out, I am afraid it will not sell a few copies.According to the vernacular of people from Guangdong and Guangxi, it is absolutely necessary to rush to the street.

Having been in this business for many years, Boss Lin has read a lot. He basically reads two scripts every day, and he has a good understanding of readers' tastes.

That's right, the phenomenon of similarities between the novels is too serious nowadays. Once you open the pages, you will find that they are full of wits and beauties, making it tasteless to read.But he also knows that readers will naturally form a reading habit if they read too many books of one type.

For example, a reader opens a new book and sees that something happened to the protagonist’s family. Well, it’s not unexpected.Next, it should be that the marriage arranged by his family is about to fail.

So, after looking at it next, it turned out that he was retiring.

Hehe, I guessed it right.

But if the following story is not about retiring the engagement, but about the protagonist successfully marrying Meijiao Niang.

Readers will immediately throw the book aside: Shit, the protagonist is so unlucky, and the lady from a rich family suffers from marrying?This author doesn't have any skills, and he doesn't even need rationality in order to write a book.

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Unlucky---retire the marriage---the protagonist studied hard---before rushing to take the exam, he got a gift from a nobleman---the number one scholar------returned to his hometown to get married.

This is the main line of the story in Ming Dynasty scriptures.

It’s okay if you don’t write like this, but generally all books that try to write new ideas are abandoned by the market without exception.

"Sense of substitution, yes, that's the word. When readers read a novel, most of them will imagine themselves as the protagonist in the book, and feel excited, sad, painful, and joyful with his joys and sorrows. This is the joy of reading." Lin The boss looked at the manuscript in his hand with a sigh, and murmured: "Who would put himself into a monkey? In terms of this setting alone, this book is already inferior."

"I heard from Su Mu that this is the first time he has written a storybook. He has never read the basics before, and he probably doesn't know the truth in it. No wonder he writes this kind of thing. Come on, come on, let me do it for you. He revises and revises it to see if it can be changed into another look, and the worst is to give him some embellishments when the book is published." After all, I still can't bear to part with this commercial gimmick that I came up with.Boss Lin had no choice but to cheer up, polish his ink, and start to revise the manuscript.

The background and the story are not changed much, but the identity of the stone monkey is changed to a weak-crowned scholar who burst out of the stone.

But this change seemed extremely awkward.How could a scholar fall into the crowd of monkeys and become the monkey king? Is this possible?

Besides, most of the scholars in today's novels are romantic and elegant, but the stone monkey in this book is flying and jumping.You can't imagine that a scholar wearing a square scarf will wear it into the water curtain hole and climb up and down the tree.

In this way, not only the character of the character needs to be modified, but also the whole story needs to be designed. How is it different from writing a new book?

Dejectedly throwing down the pen in his hand, Boss Lin gave up: "Forget it, this book is just like this, anyway, it's only a few thousand words, I read two more pages, I really can't return it."

With this in mind, Boss Lin read the book with some inconsistency.Wait to see: The Monkey King is innocent and happy, how long will there be three to five hundred years.One day, during a wedding banquet with a group of monkeys, he suddenly became sad and shed tears.All the monkeys panicked" and hurriedly said: "Why is your majesty bothered? "The Monkey King said: "Although I am happy, I am a little far-sighted, so I am troubled. The monkeys laughed again and said, "Your Majesty is so dissatisfied!"I wait for a happy meeting every day, in the blessed land of the fairy mountains, the ancient cave of Shenzhou, not under the jurisdiction of the unicorn, not under the control of the phoenix, and not bound by the throne of the world. Freedom is an immeasurable blessing. Why worry about it? "The monkey king said: "Although today it is not under the law of the king of men, and it is not afraid of the prestige of beasts, in the future, it will be old and bloody, and I will be secretly in charge of the king of Hades. "When all the monkeys heard this, they hid their faces and wailed, all worrying about impermanence.

Then a arm-armed ape came forward and reported that it was the Buddha, the Immortal and the Sacred, who had escaped reincarnation, lived and died, and lived as long as the heavens, earth, mountains and rivers. "

The Monkey King asked, "Where do these three people live?"

The ape said: "He is only in the world of Yan Fu, in the ancient cave and fairy mountain."

When the Monkey King heard this, he was full of joy and said: "Tomorrow I will resign from you and go down the mountain. I will travel around the corners of the world and travel far into the world. I must visit these three. I will learn how to live forever and avoid the hardships of Yama."

Alas!With this sentence, Dunjiao jumped out of the cycle of reincarnation, resulting in the success of Monkey King.

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"It turned out to be a novel about cultivating immortals. It is only now that this book is interesting." Boss Lin smiled and said nothing strangely. As a scholar, he is not very interested in this kind of subject matter.

At this time, he felt that this book was not impossible to publish, and he might as well print more than a thousand copies and put them on the market to test the waters.

Just as I was thinking about it, when I saw that the manuscript in my hand was halfway through, I suddenly froze in my heart: "I didn't like this kind of book at first, ordinary novels about gods and demons, I would throw it away after just one glance, and never touch it again. Today It's strange, but I read it smoothly, and I didn't feel disgusted after reading so much in one breath. Perhaps, this book is really..."

Suddenly, he vaguely felt that this "Journey to the West" seemed to have an inexplicable magic power, whether you like it or not, it will push you behind to read it in one breath.

And the naughty monkey in the book seems to be living beside him, jumping up and down scratching his ears and cheeks, never resting for a moment.