Bachelor

Chapter 88 "Small Collection of Chuanqing"

At dawn, Sun Dan opened his eyes, and there was a refreshing sandalwood scent in his nose.There is faint green smoke rising from the copper incense burner in the house. The spacious room is bright and clean, with sunlight coming in from the windows.

It was still morning, but the sound of cicadas was as dense as raindrops.

Summer seems to come in an instant.

It is already the end of May in the lunar calendar, which is equivalent to the beginning of July in the Gregorian calendar, and the weather should be hot.

The ancient ecology was good, and summer came late.But because I drank too much wine last night, my head still hurts.

Ten days have passed since the end of the college examination.

The past ten days have been busy for Sun Dan. When the list came out, many students who were talented in the same period immediately came to visit Sun's residence with their films.Those who can be selected as scholars these days are all great people. As far as the people who come to visit Sun Dan are mostly young men of seventeen or eighteen, they are all children of famous families in Shandong.When these people met Sun Dan, they were all so enthusiastic as if they had known each other for many years.

After all, we are fellow Shandong fellows, and now we all have fame and fame, and we have already squeezed into the country gentry class.The so-called rich and easy wives, expensive and easy friends, basically speaking, these people will be regarded as the local ruling class in the future, and they should move around more in normal times.Moreover, these new academic talents are very likely to be selected as candidates, Jinshi, and enter the court as officials in the future.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examinations were used to select scholars, and a huge civil service group was quickly cultivated.Most of the people who maintain this civil servant group are the relationship between teachers and students and the same year.Among them, the relationship is the most important in the same year, and will enter the officialdom.As soon as we meet, without further ado, we first arrange seniority: who is the scholar of that year, and who is the Jinshi of which year.

As long as it is mentioned that they are in the list of the same period, even if the two have never met before, they immediately become intimate like good brothers.In the future, they will help each other and support each other in officialdom.

After ten years of cold windows, all he wanted was to become an official through the imperial examination.Although everyone is still a small talent now, those with a heart have already begun to pave the way for their future contacts early.

Sun Dan is the head of the current case, and he is favored by Yang Shen, and his reputation has grown greatly.In the eyes of Shandong scholars, he is a popular candidate for the next Juren, and it can be said that he has a bright future.

He is just an ordinary scholar now, but he is close.If one wins a Juren or even a Jinshi in the future, even if one wants to be intimate, one might not have such a good chance.

As a result, Shandong scholars kept visiting and sending a lot of gifts.

After ten days, Sun Dan received more than 100 taels of silver and a mountain of gifts.

Sun Dan was just a small civil servant in his previous life. Seeing the majesty and comfort of the leaders, he was determined to do something as soon as he arrived in the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, he never tires of this kind of communication between the same years.Courtesy is reciprocal, and he also prepares gifts for return visits one by one.

In this way, from the day the list was released to the present, Sun Dan has never had a day free.Chengri traveled with all the scholars to play in the mountains and rivers, sang poems and prose, wrote poems until my mouth was dry, and drank until I got a headache.Sun Dan didn't hide his clumsiness, he drank the wine as soon as he arrived, and opened his mouth to write.

Originally, he was not good at composing poems and couplets, so he deliberately avoided it.But this kind of literati's elegance, if you don't write a few words, you will be looked down upon.So, during this period of time, he simply didn't run away, and copied a dozen poems from the Qing Dynasty's poems and dealt with it indiscriminately.Fortunately, although the poetry of the Qing Dynasty is dull and rigid, it stands out from the crowd among this group of young scholars.Everyone also has couplets in the Yahui, and this matter is also simple. Sun Dan already has a set of ancient and modern couplets in his database, but he can barely deal with it.As for the other tricks, Sun Dan hasn't encountered them yet, so it won't be revealed.

Soon, the poems of the Qing Dynasty that Sun Dan plagiarized indiscriminately were sung in the market. Among them, several small poems by Nalan Rongruo were the repertoire of the brothel singers.

There are even more good people who combined Sun Dan's poems sung with literary friends during this period, as well as the articles made in the three examinations of the county and the government, and published them together in a booklet called "Chuanqing Xiaoji" .Chuanqing is a new word Sun Dan gave himself. After all, he is a 16-year-old adult, and now he has gained fame, so it would be unreasonable not to choose a word.The word he comes from the online novel "Using Qing", and he is not afraid that the Internet writer who works for the Nanjing Development and Reform Commission in later generations will ask him for copyright fees.

Still, he was annoyed by unscrupulous booksellers who secretly printed his poems. "Small Collection of Chuanqing" sold very well when it came out, and Sun Jia complained to Sun Dan every time she saw him, saying that she didn't know that such an anthology would be handed over to Sun's family bookstore for publication, and that it was in vain for outsiders.

Although he was busy during this time, Sun Dan still took the time to finish "Journey to the West". I'm afraid something bad will happen.

Moreover, during this period of time, Sun Dan received many gifts from the same year, and his personal property swelled to an astonishing 300 taels, which is about 30 yuan in later generations. He can be regarded as a middle-class family in Shandong.Looking at the vain money, Sun Dan sighed, it is better to have fame, you don't have to use your brain, someone will send you the money.In the future, I won't know what it will be like to be a Jinshi in the middle school and become an official.

After finally getting rid of poverty, the manuscript fee for the book "Journey to the West" is not so important.

Sun Dan also didn't care that the protagonist in the book had to go through 81 disasters to get the scriptures. When Comrade Tang Seng was just captured by the spider spirit and returned to the cave to get out of harmony, he let the Tathagata Buddha appear at the last moment and took it directly. The female monster threw a large bundle of scriptures to Monkey Sun, and asked them to go back to Chang'an to deal with business, and begged him not to cause trouble for himself.

"I'm a majestic Buddha, and I'm doing good for you, a monkey, all day long, isn't it reasonable?"

Seeing such an ending, Sun Jia couldn't laugh or cry, and only said that from now on, the pseudonym Penglai Xianren would be considered ruined.

"If it is ruined, it will be ruined. Is it possible that I will spend my whole life writing novels from now on?" Sun Dan spread his hands and thought to himself: I don't know if writing like this is considered unfinished?
Unexpectedly, as soon as the finale of "Journey to the West" was released, sales were [-]% higher than usual.Readers read this tangled ending, although they scolded fiercely, they had no choice but to accept it.

It wasn't until 20 years later that a poor scholar named Wu Chengen saw the original version of "Journey to the West" and was so annoyed that he picked up a pen and completed the middle part, which was regarded as an end to Sun Dan's heart trouble.

"Journey to the West" is just a game for Sun Dan to solve his food and clothing when he was poor. Apart from bringing him more than 100 taels of income, it did not benefit him at all.

On the contrary, "Chuanqing Xiaoji" has brought Sun Dan a lot of fame.The literary youths in Shandong lamented the elegant and elegant poems in the collection; the students who aspired to become officials through the imperial examination carefully pondered the three exquisite stereotyped essays in the collection.

Early the next morning when the list was released, Sun Henian went to the counties in southern Shandong with Yang Shen and Wang Yuanzheng.

Sun Dan got an independent courtyard, and the people in the mansion respected him very much, so he lived comfortably.

It's just that during this period of time, I drink too much, and my body can't bear it.

Sun Dan woke up, rubbed his swollen head, and decided to return to his hometown in Zouping in two days, and if he stayed in Jinan, he would die of drunkenness.It's been more than a month since I went out, and I don't know how Zhiniang is doing now.Fortunately, there are dozens of taels of silver savings at home, and Zhiniang should be living a good life.

Sitting on the bed in a daze, Sun Hao came in from the yard far away. Before he entered the house, a loud voice came in first: "Brother Dan, there is trouble, that man called Feng Zhen came to the door , Said that he wanted to meet Mr. Dan. Haha, you have become Mr. Dan."

Sun Dan chuckled: "What kind of master am I? I can only become a master after winning the Juren. It's too early!"

(End of this chapter)