What makes Fang Ze different from a liar is that, firstly, he really has supernatural powers, and secondly, several more impressive guests will arrive every now and then, which proves that there is indeed someone above him.
Anyway, let the country investigate. As long as Da Miao doesn't make any mistakes, he deserves to be unlucky if he can find out the truth.
Unlike Wang Cheng who left in confusion, Lin Yun was not very interested in what Fang Ze said. This woman just likes to immerse herself in her own scientific world. She believes that everything that is unscientific can be explained scientifically. But she hasn't gotten to that point yet.
Now she just wants to get the ball lightning weapon out quickly.
After sending Lin Yun away, Fang Ze was called up by Cao Zhan early the next morning and accompanied him to the bookstore.
In fact, you can read books on a tablet, and it's convenient, but Cao Zhan is quite resistant to this kind of text carrier that he has never been exposed to. He always feels that his eyes are uncomfortable when looking at electronic screens, so Fang Ze drags Cao Zhan to find a bookstore. .
The imperial capital, a place where every inch of land turns into gold, has no shortage of artistic young people who don't care about money. This can be seen from the various interesting bookstores that exist in the Imperial City.
For example, it is built in a residential area, opposite the Lido Crowne Plaza Hotel, the Mole Book Store, which is as warm as your own living room, and the Zhiqi Ancient Bookstore, which has a large collection of European ancient books. A social science bookstore dedicated to serious social science book lovers. Nei Guan Tang Bookstore has a large collection of old books. In addition to these, there are also bookstores like Mudiao Comics that specialize in collecting comics.
However, because he was too lazy to run away, and because these bookstores had their own regulations on opening hours, Fang Ze finally brought Cao Zhan to a bookstore that, although only a few hundred square meters, basically had literary books.
The bookstore was built in a small courtyard, surrounded by plants. After Fang Ze parked the car, he took Cao Zhan and walked in.
There were not many people in the bookstore at this time, and the boss didn't know what he was doing. The customers were left here to read books by themselves. If you came across a book you wanted to buy, you didn't have to wait for the boss to come back, you could just put down your money and take it.
"Here." Fang Ze stood on tiptoe and pulled out a book, then handed it to Cao Zhan.
This bookstore has a Dream of Red Mansions. I don’t know which edition it is. The cover looks very old. It is divided into three volumes: upper, middle and lower. Each volume is very thick. In addition to the original content of the story, there should be a lot of additions. Note.
People like Fang Ze didn't like to read this kind of old book, but Cao Zhan was extremely happy to get the book. Although the layout of the book was different from the layout of their time, after getting used to it, it became smooth.
After all, the format of vertical layout from right to left is really anti-human.
At this time, Cao Zhan should have finished writing Dream of Red Mansions, but he was still adding, deleting and revising, so he flipped through the book very quickly. Only when he encountered something different from what he had written, he would stop and think about it. This one is better than my own.
After five or six hours passed, Fang Ze was thinking about asking Cao Zhan to stop and go out for a meal first, and then come back and watch again, when Cao Zhan suddenly shouted. "I didn't write the rest of it."
After listening to Cao Zhan's words, Fang Ze turned around and found that Cao Zhan had already turned to the last forty chapters, Gao E's continued version, so he replied, "The last forty chapters were indeed not written by you, because out of Due to political reasons, the last forty chapters written by you were lost. Therefore, in order to prevent the lack of books, people in later generations continued to write them. There are many editions of the continuation, and this edition is the best one decided above. , so I put it together with what you wrote."
After listening to Fang Ze's words, Cao Zhan was stunned for a moment, then thought of the contents of the next forty chapters, and smiled bitterly, "At least eighty chapters are left."
After Cao Zhan finished speaking, he began to carefully read the last forty chapters written by Gao E. However, he only read it for less than half an hour before he couldn't stand it anymore and slammed the book down on the table.
"What's wrong, are you not satisfied with the ending of this continuation?" Fang Ze asked curiously.
After all, the ending of Gao E's continuation of the story was too much like the tone of Dream of Red Mansions set by Cao Xueqin at the beginning. Especially the re-emergence of the Jia family in the ending completely contradicts the tone of the entire book.
"It's not about the ending." Cao Zhan stroked his beard, and then asked Fang Zedao, "Who is this Gao E, and what does his ancestor do?"
"He is from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Han Army
"I see." Cao Zhan sighed first, and then said, "I can't say whether I am satisfied with the ending or not. This guy's writing smells sour. I thought he was an ordinary scholar who has never seen the world, but I didn't expect him to be the same. He has some status. But the articles he wrote are so unbearable."
"Why is it so unbearable?" Fang Ze asked curiously.
"Look here." Cao Zhan pointed to a page in the book and said to Fang Ze, "At dawn the next day, the girls in each room have lit the lights, the ladies have finished washing, and the gentlemen have also tidied up. At the beginning of the month, Lin Zhixiao and Lai Da came in and replied at the second door: "The cars are all ready and waiting outside the door. "After a while, Mrs. Jia Shexing also came over. Everyone had breakfast. Sister Feng helped the old lady out first, and everyone followed, each with a maid, and walked forward slowly. She also ordered Li Gui and the other two to ride out first. The palace gate responded, followed by their own family members. From the Wen generation to the Cao Zi generation, they got on their carriages and rode horses, and followed all the family members. Jia Lian and Jia Rong were at home to look after the house. It is said that the Jia family's vehicles, sedans and horses all rested and waited at the gate of the outer west wall. "
"Is this the scene where everyone from the Jia family comes to visit the palace? What's wrong?"
"This is not about entering the palace. This is where the landlord, Lao Cai, went to visit his relatives." Cao Zhan said, and then turned another page, "And here," When I walked to Concubine Yuan's palace, I saw Kui The wall is brilliant, the glass shines.'"
"At first glance, this person has never been to the palace or seen the world. No matter where he is, he calls him "Shang Yi Zhou Ding", "Embroidered Bead Curtain", "Peacock Screen" and "Hibiscus Mat". It is completely based on imagination. description."
"And here." Cao Zhan pointed to the description of several people from Jia's family going to Prince Jing's Mansion on the birthday of Prince Beijing in Dream of Red Mansions, and said, "It doesn't matter if this person has never seen a palace scene. He can even write about a prince's mansion." It smells like a large courtyard. The dignified prince of Beijing County appeared, but he simply wrote "wearing formal clothes". It's really hard to know what to say."
Forehead.
After hearing what Cao Zhan said, Fang Ze didn't know what to say.
He originally thought that Gao E had been an official and was a man who had seen the world, but he did not expect that compared with someone like Cao Zhan who came from a declining family, he was still far behind.
No wonder Daiyu appears in Chapter 40 after The Red Mansion. She changed into some fresh clothes and dressed up like Chang'e's lower realm. 'Such a sentence.
(End of chapter)