Today is the second day of October. Quzhou has successfully drained the water from the moat, but who knew that after just two days of exposure to the sun, it caught up with a heavy rain, which undoubtedly slowed down some of the project progress.

Yesterday was October Day, and it was the day for sending cold clothes. Li Yu came back this time on the grounds of worshiping his ancestors. Otherwise, he would have come back as soon as he was in the occupied area of ​​the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, it is said that he specially brought the whole family back for this sacrifice to worship his ancestors, and it is very likely that he would not come back within a few years after leaving this time.

As the senders came and went, Chen Wen and Li Yu made an appointment with a restaurant in the west of the city. It had been cleared in advance, and the diners left were all Chen Wen's guards who had disguised. The shopkeeper and the clerk also informed him, but Li Yu was just hiding it.

On the afternoon of the third day of the October 10th, Li Yu arrived as promised, wearing a Taoist robe that Ming Ji scholars often wore. The piece on the top of his head and the back of his head had a rat tail. It was so awkward that it looked awkward.

After seeing the ceremony on both sides, they were separated by the guest and host in a secluded position by the window. Chen Wen and Li Yu said that they had met each other, but they intersected with words. After a brief greeting, Li Yu took out the manuscript bound by a big beef with a thread and signaled Chen Wen, the employer, to review it.

The first page of the manuscript clearly states the title of the book "Love in the City". Chen Wen only knows the general plot of Zhang Ailing's original story, but has never read the original book. The outline he wrote to Li Yu was actually a general plot from the history of the Jiashen National Migration in the 17th year of Chongzhen to the Jinhua Massacre.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Hanlin Bai family, whose ancestors were prosperous in the early Ming Dynasty, had already declined because they did not offer a single Juren for several generations.

Bai Liusu, the sixth lady of the Bai family, is a famous talented woman in the mansion. She married a son of the same year of her father in her early years. But who knew that the father, who was originally very promising to be on the list, died of depression after failing the exam again and again, while his in the same year became a second-class person and became a Shujishi. He became a high-ranking official in his official career for more than ten years.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, although he suffered the Jiashen national crisis, this year was the day when Bai Liusu got married. The two families were originally almost the same, but now they were very different. The old lady of the Bai family was afraid that her granddaughter would get angry with her in-laws, so she asked her family to get a lot of dowry. For this matter, several brothers blamed each other and had petty sisters-in-law. They finally got it out under the coercion of the old lady. However, before Bai Liusu could marry, her husband, who was married, died in the torture of the thief Li Zicheng, and even the same year as her father was not spared.

The marriage failed to get married and became a family of few people, while her in-laws simply threw the blame on her, saying that she killed her father-in-law and husband, and refused to return the dowry. That family was an official family. Although they suffered great disasters, they had many old friends and spoke much harder than the Bai family. For this reason, Bai Liusu was ridiculed by relatives at home and saw all the cold and cold world.

Fortunately, her father had a student named Fan Liuyuan who was familiar with Chen Zilong, who had calmed the Xudu Rebellion. He used some energy to force the family to return the dowry. However, Bai Liusu was exhausted in this series of struggles, so he simply supported his mother and lived in the small courtyard in the south of the city where her father lived when he was studying, away from those snobbish relatives.

Coincidentally, Fan Liuyuan lived nearby. Due to previous events, the two of them became familiar with each other. There were some misunderstandings in the middle, and there were also no further development due to the fear of people's words. As a result, two years later, the Qing army broke through the Qiantang River defense line, and Prince Duanzhong Boluo and General Ma Jinbao brazenly created the Jinhua Slaughter.

Three days after the massacre of the city, Bai Liusu and Fan Liuyuan hid in the dry well in the courtyard. The misunderstanding was gradually lifted in exchanges, and then they made an eternal promise. Three days after supporting each other, the Qing army rushed south to Fujian. The two who were about to starve to death were out of trouble with the help of other survivors and soon became husband and wife.

This is the outline written by Chen Wen before. Because he didn't know the specific plot, he simply wrote a rough outline and gave it to Li Yu to fill it. As a result, a few months later, Li Yu not only completed the plot, but also changed the outline a lot. I don't know if the concepts between Li Yu and Zhang Ailing were very different, or if Chen Wen had put this story too stiffly.

In Li Yu's rewriting, the plot of the story is much more turbulent than the plot in Chen Wen's outline. It not only highlights Bai Liusu's beauty and kindness, but also perfectly integrates historical events such as the rebellion of Xudu, the Jiashen national crisis, the demise of the Qing army to the south, and the death of the Hongguang Dynasty of King Lu and Zhu Dadian, which portrays Fan Liuyuan as an ordinary scholar who is good at talking and not good at practicing. At the ending, Fan Liuyuan was killed by the Qing army in order to find food for the two. After Bai Liusu was rescued, he hanged himself and committed suicide by learning about Fan Liuyuan's death, writing this love story into a tragedy.

But if you think about it carefully, isn’t this improved story supposed to be a tragedy?!

I don’t know how many pots of wine have been served, and the hot water for warm wine has been changed many times. While drinking wine, Chen Wen carefully read this story that incorporates the history of the late Ming Dynasty. He did not finish reading it completely until it was dark. For a moment, it reminded him of the past when he sat at home and watched a classic novel when he was off work.

"Brother Xufan is a talented man. His story is ups and downs and full of joy, and he is indeed far better than the outline of the story I wrote before."

"I dare not. I was planning to write about it. When Fan Liuyuan went out to find food, Bai Liusu was discovered by the Tartars in the dry well and was tragically beaten. After Fan Liuyuan found the food, he only saw Bai Liusu's body. So after the Qing army sealed the sword, he angrily defected to the royal army. But after thinking about it, he still couldn't write it. For the time being, he could only do this."

From destruction in silence to an outbreak in silence, at least in Chen Wen's opinion, the latter is better than the former. But looking at Li Yu again, he felt a sense of fatigue and sadness when he said this. Chen Wen remembered that Li Yu's words were not like this, and perhaps his actions brought him a considerable burden.

"Your Excellency has unknown. You have received the outline of this story for several months. It can be said that you are writing and writing. It was not until not long ago that I finished it. During this period, I tear up the manuscript several times and wanted to abandon the writing several times, otherwise I would have sent it to your case."

After Li Yu said this, Chen Wen suddenly didn't know how to answer. Before he could think of how to respond, Li Yu seemed to open the floodgates and released the words he had accumulated for many years.

"When I received your outline, I almost threw away the letter because I didn't want to face the bloody massacre again. However, because the story you sent earlier really attracted me, I read the outline with the thought of taking a casual look, and then the second and third times. Over the whole day, I thought of more than a dozen story backgrounds, and the specific plot of the entire story also came to my mind, and I only wrote it."

"But when I picked up the pen, I didn't know why, and I always felt that the story seemed to be wrong. It was not until a few days later that I realized that it was not that the story was wrong, but that I was unwilling to face it from the bottom of my heart." As he said that, Li Yu got a glass of wine and drank it all in one go.

"After nearly half a month of confusion, I felt that I could not continue like this, so I picked up the pen and wrote according to your outline and the plot in my mind. But the more I wrote, the more I was upset. Finally, I had to stop writing, but I picked up the pen again the next day. In this way, after a few times, I finally got out of it, but many things in the text and plot must be constantly considered."

"I finally finished writing the previous story, but when I wrote the last part of the massacre of the city, my previous feeling seemed to have come back..."

"When I first arrived in Hangzhou, although I had funded a friend, I never had a serious business. The cost of my family was difficult. If my wife had not managed the family well, I would have been hungry. Since I received the royalties from you, my family has finally been much more abundant. I am not afraid of you making jokes. I always think about it when I abandoned my pen and didn't write it, so I had to keep writing."

"I originally planned to bring your lord back after writing it, but at this moment, the news of Linhai Bo defeating the Tartars in Quzhou reached Hangzhou."

"Recalling the ending that never was written, I realized that it was the efforts of the king's army that allowed more lovers to finally get married and not be separated by the barbarian slaughter of the Tartars. If China was stolen by barbarians, then more Fan Liuyuan and Bai Liusu would be harmed by the Tartars, and the beauty of the world could only exist in the story."

"So, I decided to leave Hangzhou and return to Jinhua with my family and friends who have the same idea to join the king's army. By the way, I handed over this manuscript to you. At the same time, I would like to ask you to testify for me."

Speaking of this, Li Yu actually took out a paper-cut knife from his sleeve, looked at Chen Wen with a calm smile, and stroked the rat tail of the money above his head with his left hand. With a stroke of his right hand, the ugly rat tail of the money fell to the ground.

As the rabbits rose and fell, Chen Wen's guards had just reacted, and before they could do it, they saw the scholar cutting the whip in front of their commander, and they were at a loss for a moment. Not only them, but even Chen Wen was stunned. This was a possibility he had never thought of, but it happened in front of him.

"From the communication of words, I can see that you must be a righteous man with a heart-wrenching and dress in the Han family. Although I don't know if you have done it intentionally, I have learned a lot from writing these two stories, so I don't have to pay any effort to do this. I hope you will forgive me."

At this moment, Li Yu seemed to have escaped from the heavy burden of Qianjun, and his whole body became completely renewed. On the contrary, Chen Wen seemed to have not yet reacted in this kind of "artist" air, especially when he thought of Li Yu's plan to join the army in Jinhua, his expression was a little unnatural.

After a while of conversation, Li Yu stood up and said goodbye. He and a few friends came to Jinhua together and were now living in an inn in the west of the city. They planned to spend a few days to learn about the functions of the Ming army in Jinhua and various departments of the government in order to prepare for the matter of seeking the Ming army.
Chapter completed!