Li Qi never expected that people in this era have such a strong love for stories.
Over the past few days, the Cuihong Building was full during the day, and everyone came to listen to Li Qi's story.
Even the girls from Cuihonglou would come over to support her whenever they had nothing to do.
Naturally, Li Qi couldn't keep talking, so he set a time.
A session at noon will last an hour, and a session in the evening will last an hour.
In addition, he also set a rule: if the reward money is large, there will be another game.
What he didn't expect was that he underestimated the reward ability of the people of Jincheng.
As soon as it started at noon, only halfway through the lecture, someone immediately gave me a reward of twenty taels!
Looking at the big wooden box placed in front of the stage, the copper coins were almost overflowing. How could he have the nerve not to overtime?
"I said last time that after the grandson learned his skills and came back, he saw that his grandson was bullied, so he naturally had to settle the score with the Demon King..."
Unknowingly, two hours passed quickly, and Li Qi's mouth was dry as he spoke.
The Journey to the West he tells is a TV series version, so all the storylines are based on those in the TV series.
He didn't remember many details clearly, so he added some details and adapted them himself.
Because "Journey to the West" is so exciting, even if he didn't tell it very well, it still attracted a lot of people.
"That's it for today. If you want to know what happens next, please listen to the next episode..."
Li Qigang wanted to step down, but everyone stopped, and someone shouted: "Keep talking! I'll give you a reward!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the wooden box that was originally filled with copper coins overflowed, and the turtle slave on the side who was responsible for guarding the box could not pick it up.
Damn it, do you want to be so enthusiastic?
You haven’t heard stories in hundreds of years, right?
If this continues, will this young master die of exhaustion?
"Keep going!"
Someone in the audience shouted, and for a moment everyone started banging the bowls and chopsticks on the table. It was so enthusiastic.
Li Qi had no doubt that if he stepped down now, he would be beaten to death by bowls and chopsticks...
Returning to the table, Li Qi smiled at everyone: "Since everyone is so complimentary, I will tell you something next..."
…
When Li Qi returned to the room at night, he felt that his throat was smoking. After drinking two sips of tea, he lay on the bed and didn't want to move.
After a while, Xiao Man came in with a bowl of soup: "Master, this is the throat soup that Mother Liu asked to prepare for you."
Li Qi nodded and pointed to the table: "Put it there..."
As he said this, he was about to close his eyes and rest for a while, but who knew that Xiaoman came over and looked at him with a malicious look on his face.
"What?" Li Qi asked weakly.
Xiaoman grinned, revealing two cute dimples: "Master, I just want to ask you, did Sun Wukong and the others finally obtain the true scripture?"
Li Qi rolled her eyes at him angrily and didn't bother to talk to her.
"Master, tell me..."
"If you want to listen, go to the lobby tomorrow to listen. My voice is almost hoarse now. You still want me to tell you..."
"Master, just tell me." Xiaoman pitifully took out a handful of pumpkin seeds from his arms, "Can I give you this?"
It's rare that this girl is willing to separate her food from others?
"Even if you prepare a banquet for me, I'm not interested."
As he spoke, Li Qi turned over and prepared to go to sleep. He only felt two small fists tapping gently on his back: "Master, I'm going to knock your back, can you tell me about it?"
"not good……"
"Then I will tell you the secrets of martial arts, and you can tell me about it, okay?"
"not good……"
"Master! You are a stingy person! Wuwuwu..."
…
Due to Li Qi's limited memory, he finished the twenty-five episodes of Journey to the West in just a few days.
He did the math and found that storytelling had brought him more income than staying in a hotel these days.
He originally planned to take a rest, but he simply went ahead and told a new story.
"After telling you the story of Sun Wukong, let's change the taste today and tell you a story about a scholar..."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone below became dissatisfied.
"What's so good about the scholar's story?"
"That's it, change it to another one and don't listen."
…
Li Qi grinned: "The story of my scholar is not ordinary. It can make the listener sad and the listener shed tears... and the protagonist eventually turned into a butterfly..."
Everyone became a little curious.
"Became a butterfly? Could it be a butterfly spirit?"
"Is it the sequel to Sun Wukong?"
Seeing that everyone was interested, Li Qi struck while the iron was hot: "If you want to know, just listen to me... By the way, Miss Zhu Yingtai from the Zhu Mansion loved to recite and read poetry and books since she was a child, and she wanted to study abroad, so she and her girl
Disguise yourself as a man and go to the academy to study..."
Seeing that you are all smiling so happily these days, I will make you cry your heart out today.
As the saying goes, when the Butterfly Lovers comes out, everyone bursts into tears, and when the suona sounds, there are thousands of taels of gold!
The story of "Butterfly Lovers" itself is not complicated, but in order to create an effect, Li Qi asked several girls from Cuihonglou to provide music.
One of them was also found to play the suona, just to add to the atmosphere at the end of the story when Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo turned into butterflies.
With the training of Journey to the West, Li Qi talked about the Butterfly Lovers, which was so lifelike.
When talking about the confession between Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo, he even added some words: "Zhu Yingtai still didn't understand what she was thinking when she saw Liang Shanbo, so one day she found Liang Shanbo and said to him: Can you
Help me wash something? Liang Shanbo asked her: What to wash? Zhu Yingtai was very shy and said three words... she likes me."
Everyone had never heard of such an interesting confession. For a moment, the men laughed "haha" and the women all blushed.
In the corridor on the second floor, Ji Shanyu had an expressionless face and a dazed look in her eyes, as if she was thinking about something.
When Li Qi came to the finale, the suona sounded and everyone shed tears.
Li Qi also pretended to touch his eyes: "It's true, they turned into butterflies and danced gracefully, loving each other without mercy... alas..."
When Ji Shanyu heard this, her eyes couldn't help but flicker, and she muttered to herself: "Is there really such true love in the world?"
…
When Li Qi went to the accounting room, Mother Liu was counting money with two turtle slaves.
"Boss, your story is really good! I've made almost a thousand taels in the past few days!" Liu's mother said excitedly.
"Sprinkle some water. After you count the money, go and change it into a banknote." Li Qi proudly ordered.
“Good owner.”
"When the time comes, I will give you two hundred taels to share with everyone, and treat it as a reward for everyone."
"My boss, you are really kind-hearted, I thank you on their behalf." Mother Liu said with tears of gratitude.
Li Qi was secretly proud. It seems that it is not difficult to make money in this era...
I finally have a skill, young master. I can tell people stories every day from now on.