Li Chengze didn't go to school with Lin Juren after he became a scholar. Before that, he was busy getting married. After getting married, this Li Chengze is not the same as Li Chengze. There are many messy and trivial things in his life, and it takes time to get rid of them. deal with.
Li Cheng took the time to meet the Juren teacher, briefly said that he would not come here later, and then came back after listening to his admonition and encouragement.
Headed by scholars, farmers, businessmen, and scholars, their social status is far from comparable to the other three. Li Chengze has been very aware of this for a long time, so the imperial examination road must continue, but I am afraid that he will not be able to participate in this autumn in late October this year.
First of all, Li Chengze was not original, he became a monk halfway, and he had never studied the four books and five classics of the serious scientific examination textbooks of this era, and the poetry and songs were also not good, so he must not pass the exam. Although there are memories of the original owner, the original owner himself is a half-baked thing, and the achievements of the previous scholars are all unclear.
Besides, the Li family is so poor now, while Li Cheng has nothing to worry about, and his pockets are shy. The imperial examination also costs money. Following the trend of the Li family, the Bai family is afraid that they will start planning for Gu Qingci's dowry. Although the Sun family doesn't have so many playboys in their hearts, they still feel that it is only natural for Gu Qingci's money to be used by Li Cheng.
And Su Ziyan didn't know what his intentions were, but he was able to copy a copy of the test questions for Li Chengze. After the original body got the questions last time, he didn't go to others to buy the answers. Instead, he made a copy himself, and finally managed to get one. The results of the middle and lower reaches, but this is a good thing, at least it will not attract attention.
As long as Li Cheng didn't pass it through, Qiu Wei's set of test questions would definitely not be able to do it at the original level, so he would definitely think of asking someone to catch him.
Once the test questions are circulated, the consequences will be disastrous.
Su Ziyan is now Li Chengze's focus. Obviously, what Su Ziyan did was either to plot something against Li Chengze, or to frame him. Leaving aside how Su Ziyan got the test questions, Li Cheng felt that the first time he threw out the test questions, it was like a primer, and the purpose was to catch Li Chengze. The real trick should be this time the rural test.
After all, Su Ziyan himself participated in the last Tong Sheng Exam.
According to Li Chengze's guess, Su Ziyan was planning a conspiracy, maybe he wanted to get Li Chengze out of the exam.
If that test question is true, it proves that the test question was leaked. Leaking test questions and cheating in the examination room is a felony, and those who bought the test questions are also guilty. Once they are discovered and found out, many people will suffer bad luck, and it is not uncommon for them to ransack their homes.
Li Cheng pretended to tell Su Ziyan that he was going to participate in this Qiu Wei, so he lied to him. This month, he deliberately seldom went out of the house, just to make Su Ziyan believe what he said.
But even though he wasn't preparing for the exam, Li Cheng wasn't idle at home. He was preparing the novel he was about to write.
Different from the obscure and hard-to-understand classic literature that governs the world, most ordinary people who can read can't understand it, let alone understand it. The vernacular novels circulated among the common people are mostly vernacular, and they belong to the kind that can be read by knowing the characters.
This is normal, otherwise the extra-curricular readings that are intended to relax the mind must be written in a complicated literary form, and I am afraid that no one will buy them.
Li Cheng quickly flipped through a lot of books, and then summed up. Nowadays, the types of novels on the market are roughly divided into four categories, including public case novels, ghost novels, legendary novels, and serial novels.
Of course, this does not include some small story books that are not long and only write about love and love. Love story books have always been dismissed as vulgar by some people and cannot be put on the stage, but in fact Li Cheng has no opinion at all. After all, the market decides the direction, doesn't it? If everyone really didn't bother to read it, this kind of book wouldn't sell so well.
After Li Cheng reviewed his thoughts, he planned to test the waters with the koan novel. The koan novel is actually a big concept. Let’s call it that for now. It can be subdivided into many items, and there are many types of stories that can be written. There are many types of stories like this on the market. There are many short novels and some long novels, but few.
Li Chengze's aim is to make money. First, the intention of the novel must not have the direction and plot of satirizing officialdom corruption. Second, the ideas in the article can be biased towards praising officials for judging cases wisely, rehabilitating unjust prisons, and adjudicating cases with integrity. Prison-based, it is best to establish the protagonist and the decent characters in it as upright, clean and honest, and law enforcement like a mountain.
On top of this tone, some Su Shuangwen's tone and elements are added, such as the highlights of the protagonist's personality and personality.
After preparing for a while, Li Cheng began to write.
He named his first novel "Cui Shi San Lang". It was a very common title, and he knew it was a person's name as soon as he heard it.
The main content of the story is also simple. It tells the story of the protagonist Cui Sanlang from a down-and-out noble son who experienced various hardships and trials, and finally became a commanding officer with a heavy responsibility.
During this process, the protagonist was appreciated by King Xiang because of his thoughtfulness, wisdom, and ability to solve strange cases skillfully, and then he took advantage of the opportunity to join him. After that, he assisted King Xiang in various ways to solve strange cases and deal with important matters. Gradually became the confidant of King Xiang.
Xiangyang finally ascended the throne as emperor, and Cui Sanlang naturally became a minister.
Cui Sanlang was originally a son of the Hou family, but he lived under the control of his stepmother since he was a child, and was rejected by his father, so it was difficult to live in the huge mansion.
But one night, Cui Sanlang was assassinated by three assassins on his way home, and then he was thrown into the wilderness.
This is where the storyline unfolds.
The protagonist who was thrown into the mass grave was not dead, he was still breathing, but passed out.
Fortunately, at that time, there was a beggar who "picked up dead money" was doing his daily work. When the beggar found the protagonist Cui Sanlang, Cui Sanlang suddenly stood up, opened his eyes suddenly, and stretched out With one hand, he grabbed the beggar's calf.
"Fake corpse!" The beggar was so frightened that he was out of his wits, screaming out this sentence.
Cui Sanlang was rescued and survived. He was not a fool, he immediately deduced that his stepmother had something to do with his murder, but he also knew that he had no evidence, and his words were empty, even if he went back to make a tearful confession to his father, his father might not believe him, but would startle the snake and make that The sinister woman killed herself again.
He knew that he was alone and weak, and he would definitely not be able to defeat his vicious stepmother.
Therefore, Cui Sanlang, who was only fourteen years old, made a decision. He pretended that he had been killed this time, and planned to take this opportunity to leave the capital.
Cui Sanlang, who healed his wounds, disguised himself and went to the pier, took a passenger ship going south, and left the capital.
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Li Chengze used 5,000 words at the beginning, which can be regarded as explaining clearly the life experience and story background of the protagonist.
Obviously, Li Cheng is writing about a growing-up protagonist. At the beginning, the fourteen-year-old protagonist can only be regarded as a teenager, and he is very weak. Although his status is noble, his fate is rough. , just like a poor little image.
At the end of the story, after Cui Sanlang has to return to the capital with a high profile, his identity will undergo an earth-shaking change. Directly ordered by the emperor, he is the favorite minister of the emperor.
Although it is a cliche story, as long as it is written well, no one will worry about it.
Judging from the character design of the protagonist, he is a typical character of Su.
Su Shuang is good, people at this time are not like later generations, who have not been brainwashed by all kinds of online novels, so they are more likely to be attracted by such stories.
Li Cheng laid out the outline of the story, finished another 30,000 words, and was going to go to the book store to ask questions and sell the novel.
He polished and revised the draft of the novel in his study, and more than half an hour passed before he knew it.
Over there, the two sisters of the Li family who learned to read at Gu Qingci's place also just left.
Li Cheng went back to the main room, seeing Gu Qingci still sitting on the desk looking at something, his brows were tightly frowned.
The girl next to him saluted, while Li Cheng waved his hand, walked over, and asked aloud, "What are you looking at? Could it be that the two younger sisters gave you a problem?"
When Gu Qingci was distracted, he threw the things in his hands aside and muttered: "What kind of problems can they give me, but just now I assigned homework for my sister to let them practice by themselves. Take the shop ledger sent by the shopkeeper to read, and it will become more and more troublesome to read."
Li Chengze understood as soon as he heard it that Gu Qingci was talking about the account books of his dowry shop, he shouldn't ask about this matter now, let alone intervene to manage it and come up with ideas, neither of which is appropriate.
So he just nodded, skimming over the words, raised his eyebrows and said, "Since you're upset, just don't read it. Why don't I take you out for a stroll?"
As soon as these words came out, Gu Qingci's eyes immediately widened, followed by surprise.
"I, want to go out! Can you?"
She acted like a child, which provoked Li Cheng to laugh, and said: "Why not, my family doesn't have such big rules, besides, Miss is going out with your husband-in-law today, what are you afraid of?"
Gu Qingci told him that his face was flushed, and his big eyes were bright and moist.
Then he stood up all of a sudden and said, "Then I have to go and change my clothes."
Li Cheng held her back and shook his head, "No, this set is pretty good, let's go, go out early, and have lunch outside."
Gu Qingci really didn't need to change this outfit, it was her first upper body, and the brightly colored material matched her bright and pretty appearance very well.
When Gu Qingci heard his praise, she was naturally happy, with a proud face.
It was planned to go out today, but Li Cheng asked Yuan Bao to rent a carriage.
Now she took Gu Qingci with her, and Gu Qingci brought another jade bracelet, and kept the jade beads to guard the house, and then they went out together.
Speaking of which, Gu Qingci hadn't gone out for a long time, and the marriage was arranged in a hurry before, afraid of being laughed at, so how could he be in the mood.
This was the first time she went out after getting married, and she was in a very good mood, so after seeing that the rented carriage was not so satisfactory, she rarely complained.
"Where do you want to go?" Li Cheng asked Gu Qingci first.
Gu Qingci is really not without ideas. Hearing this, he immediately opened his mouth and said: "Of course it is Yuzhenxuan!" Yuzhenxuan is the most famous jewelry, treasure and antique shop in Beijing, and there is no wife in Beijing. Miss doesn't know about it, Gu Qingci used to come here with the second wife every now and then.
Li Cheng naturally followed her, and the carriage drove past slowly.
Yuzhenxuan is really big, with two floors.
The interior is well furnished.
Yuzhu got out of the car first, and then opened the curtain on one side, while Li Cheng got off and reached out to help Gu Qingci.
Seeing her stepping on the footstool, she jumped down and hurried to hold her.
Such a long skirt is really afraid that she will step on it and fall.
After supporting the person, he looked at her helplessly and said: "Don't be rash, if you fall, you will suffer." As he spoke, he couldn't help pinching her cheek again.
Gu Qingci glared at people like a rabbit, and said in a low voice: "It's so shameless, be careful and others will see it."
Li Cheng couldn't help laughing, and then said softly: "Let Yuzhu go shopping with you, I'll go to the book shop, and I'll come pick you up later, is that okay?"
Gu Qingci nodded, most of the people inside were female relatives, it's not surprising that Li Cheng didn't follow.
Li Cheng sent the man to the door, and told the store clerk who came up to meet him, and then left.
There was also a carriage parked not far from their carriage, and two young girls got out of it early in the morning, watching the scene of Gu Qingci and Li Chengze just now.
In fact, a person wearing lotus root pink clothes said to the people around him: "Isn't the one in front Gu Liu?"
The young lady in the royal blue dress snorted, with disdain on her face, and said mockingly: "It's just that, she has a big heart and dares to go out. I heard that she married a poor family, how can she still afford Yuzhenxuan?"
The people next to him laughed, "No matter what, it's the lady of the Gonghou family. Isn't there still a dowry? Let's go, let's go and have a look."