Chapter 87 "Chuan Qing Xiao Ji"

At dawn, Sun Dan opened her eyes and felt a refreshing smell of sandalwood at the end of her nose. There was a faint blue smoke rising from the copper incense burner in the room, and the spacious room was bright and clean, with sunlight projecting in from the window.

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

Summer seems to be coming in an instant.

It is already late May of the lunar calendar, which is equivalent to the beginning of the seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, and the weather is about to be hot.

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

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

These ten days were busy for Sun Dan. As soon as the list came, many students from the same period came to visit Sun's house with films. Those who could become scholars these days were extraordinary people. Most of the people who came to visit Sun Dan were young men of seventeen or eighteen years old, all of whom were famous families in Shandong. When these people saw Sun Dan, they all felt so enthusiastic that they had known each other for many years.

After all, they are fellow villagers in Shandong, and now they have fame and are already crowded into the gentry class. The so-called wealthy wife and noble friends, basically, these people will be considered local ruling classes in the future and should also move more often. Moreover, these new scholars are likely to be promoted to Juren, Jinshi, and officials in the court in the future.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it was selected by imperial examinations and soon cultivated a large civil servant group. Most of the civil servant group were relationships between teachers and students and the same year. Among them, the relationship in the same year was the most important and they were about to enter the officialdom. When we met, we would not say a word, and we would first take the seniority: who was the scholar of that year, and who was the Jinshi of that year.

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

After ten years of hard work, I only want to enter the imperial examination. Although we are still a small scholar now, those who are interested have begun to lay the foundation for themselves in the future.

Sun Dan is the leader of the current juren, and is favored by Yang Shen, and is well-known. In the eyes of Shandong scholars, he is a popular candidate for the next juren, and can be said to have a great future.

He is just an ordinary scholar now, but fortunately he is close. If he passes the Juren or even a Jinshi in the future, he may not have such a good opportunity to be intimate.

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

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

Sun Dan was just a small civil servant in his previous life. He saw the prestige and nourishment of his leaders. When he arrived in the Ming Dynasty, he was determined to do something. He naturally enjoyed this kind of interaction between the same year. He also prepared gifts to visit him one by one.

In this way, from the day of the listing, Sun Dan has no time to spend a day. He traveled with the scholars all day long, sang poems and essays, and did his mouth dry and his drinking to make a headache. Sun Dan did not hide his weaknesses, and he drank it as soon as he drank, and he opened his mouth to write.

Originally, he was not good at making poetry couplets and intentionally avoided it. But if you don’t speak a few words in this kind of literary talent, you will be looked down upon. So, he simply stopped escaping during this period and copied more than a dozen poems from the Qing people’s poems to deal with things randomly. Fortunately, although the Qing people’s poems are dull and rigid, they are still stand out among these young scholars. Everyone also has couplets in the elegant talent, and this is also simple. Sun Dan’s library already has a collection of ancient and modern couplets, but he can barely deal with them. As for other tricks, Sun Dan has not encountered them yet, so he will not reveal it.

Soon, the Qing Dynasty poems that Sun Dan plagiarized randomly were sung in the market, and several of them were Nalan Rongruo's small lyrics, which were retained repertoires of brothel singers.

Some people even talked about the poems sung with literary friends during this period, as well as articles written in the three examinations of the county and government offices, and wrote a booklet called "Chuan Qing Xiao Ji". Chuan Qing was a new word for him. After all, he was a sixteen-year-old adult. Now he has gained fame and fortune. It would be better to take a word. His word comes from the online novel "Ususing the Qing Dynasty", and he is not afraid of the Internet writer who works for the Nanjing Development and Reform Commission in the future to ask for copyright fees.

However, he was still very annoyed by the bad booksellers who secretly printed his poems. "Chuan Qing Xiao Ji" sold very well as soon as it was released. Sun Jia complained to him once when he saw Sun Dan, saying that he didn't know how to hand it over to Sun's Shuxing to publish a book, and it was a waste of money outsiders.

Although he was busy during this period, Sun Dan still took the time to finish "Journey to the West". It would be meaningless to drag on it. In the future, Emperor Jiajing will be a devout Taoist. If he knew that the author of this book was himself, he would be afraid that it would be a big deal.

Moreover, during this period, Sun Dan received a lot of gifts from the same year, and his private property expanded to an astonishing 300,000 yuan, which was a medium-sized family in Shandong. Looking at the white money, Sun Dan sighed that it is better to have fame and fortune. If you don’t have to use your brain, someone will naturally send money. In the future, after passing the imperial examination and becoming an official, I don’t know what the situation will be.

Finally, I got rid of poverty, and the manuscript fee for the book "Journey to the West" is not that important.

Sun Dan didn't care that the protagonist in the book had to go through eighty-one difficulties before he could obtain the true scriptures. When Comrade Tang Seng was just caught by the spider spirit and prepared to be harmonious, he let the Buddha of Tathagata appear at the last moment and directly took over the female monster, threw a large bundle of true scriptures to Sun Monkey, asking them to return to Chang'an to report their own business, and asked him not to cause trouble for himself.

"I am a Buddha, and I'm a monkey who has been splashing the aftermath for you all day long. Is it a perfect speech?"

Seeing this ending, Sun Jia was so amused that he only said that from now on, the pen name Penglai Immortal has been ruined.

"If it is destroyed, it will be ruined. Could it be that I will live my life by writing novels in the future?" Sun Dan spread his hands and said to himself: I don't know if writing like this is considered a bad end?

Surprisingly, as soon as the finale of "Journey to the West" was released, the sales volume was 50% higher than before. After reading this entangled ending, readers could only accept it helplessly.

It was not until twenty years later that a poor scholar named Wu Chengen saw the original "Journey to the West" that he was so angry that he slapped the table. He then picked up his pen and finished the middle part, which was a matter of ending Sun Dan's heart.

"Journey to the West" is just a game work by Sun Dan in order to solve the problem of food and clothing when he was poor. It did not benefit him except for bringing him more than 100 taels of silver.

On the contrary, "Chuan Qing Xiao Ji" brought Sun Dan a lot of fame. Shandong literary scholars lamented the elegant and lively poems that concentrated on the elegant and lively; students who were determined to enter the imperial examinations carefully pondered the three exquisite eight-legged essays in the collection.

Early the morning after the announcement, Sun Henian and Yang Shen and Wang Yuanzheng went to counties in southern Shandong.

Sun Dan was able to separate an independent courtyard. The people in the mansion were very respectful to him and lived comfortably.

I just drank too much during this period and my body couldn't bear it.

Sun Dan woke up and rubbed his swollen head. He decided to go back to his hometown in Zouping in two days and stay in Jinan again. He had to die of drunkenness. He had been out for more than a month, and he didn't know what Zhi Niang is doing now. Fortunately, he still had dozens of taels of silver at home, so Zhi Niang's life should be good.

Sitting on the bed in a daze, Sun Hao walked in from afar. Before the person could enter the room, a loud voice came in first: "Brother Dan, I'm in trouble. The person named Feng Zhen came to the door and said he wanted to pay homage to Mr. Dan. Haha, you have become Mr. Dan."
Chapter completed!