Qiankun Storyteller

Chapter 3 Water Margin
The setting poem is also called the appearance poem. It was first created in the Zaju of the Yuan Dynasty. Introduction to the title.

Brief introduction, the focus is on the two words "Jane" and "Jie".

Needless to say, Jane must be concise and neat. It is best to be catchy and read through without hindrance.

The introduction is an introduction. The finale poems mostly use five characters and seven rhymes. There are not many numbers and the space is limited. The storyteller must express the characteristics and selling points of the book in this limited number, creating suspense and expectation.

For the author, a good title and a good introduction can greatly determine the performance of the work.

Storytellers are the same, if not more important.

Su asked how about this opening poem?
Works handed down from generation to generation are definitely not counted, and it is even difficult to enter the elegant hall of the poetry world.

But the bookstore is not an elegant hall, and the people sitting under the stage are not some romantic celebrities.

These are ordinary people, ordinary people who don't know a few big characters.

In their eyes, those handed down works may not be better than the wild poems in the storybook.

Most of the allusions, rhymes, and poetic sentiments are incomprehensible to them.

What can they understand?
Feel!

Su Wen's opening poem gave them such a feeling.

A thousand people are afraid of being majestic, and they are so romantic?
This big hero, the feeling of a big hero doesn't come up all at once?
As for who Wu Song is, who Chai Jin is, and what is the allusion to the Mengchang East Pavilion in the previous sentence...does that matter?
Listening to books, it's normal to not understand some places, ordinary people don't know so many historical allusions.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand, just keep listening.

If it is said that the upper column of this final poem has given everyone a feeling, then the lower column expresses the selling point and suspense.

Self-confident that he can kill a tiger with his body, but he can't beat Gang after three bowls.

It's really strange to report brother and sister-in-law, and win a high reputation forever.

These four poems have four clear selling points.

Kill a tiger, report to your brother, kill your sister-in-law, and be famous forever.

Needless to say about killing a tiger, there are similar plots in the novels.

But this report brother and sister-in-law, can still be famous forever?
It makes people very curious.

"Ok?"

"This opening poem has some taste!"

"It seems that it is really Mr. Mo's posthumous work!"

"Sure enough, a famous teacher produces a good apprentice!"

"Right, not bad!"

Everyone commented, and the direction of the wind changed again.

Those few hooligans were also aroused by their curiosity, they stepped on the bench and shouted to Su Wen: "Quickly talk about it!"

Su Wen smiled and said: "It is said that in the past, there was a place called Yanggu County, outside Yanggu County, on the way, there was a mountain called Jingyanggang!"

"Outside Jingyanggang, there is a restaurant with a banner in front of the door, with five large characters written on it: Three bowls are not enough!"

After finishing speaking, Su Wen paused for a while to give everyone some time to savor.

"Three bowls are not enough?"

"Why don't you pass the three bowls?"

"Isn't it a black shop, whoever comes here, how much money is there, is only enough for three bowls?"

Everyone discussed and turned their attention to Su Wen.

Su Wen smiled, and continued: "Why don't you pass the three bowls? It turns out that this restaurant has a secret recipe for aging wine called Tou Ping Xiang, and it is called out of the door to pour it out. When you first enter it, the mellow wine is delicious, but after a while, you will be drunk. , unconscious, no exception for any hero.”

"Therefore, this restaurant has established a rule that if someone eats wine, they only sell three bowls. If they eat enough three bowls, they will not be able to pass the Jingyang Gang in front of them. They can only spend one night in this restaurant, and we will talk about it tomorrow when we wake up, so it is called three. The bowl is not enough to hold the post!"

"I see!"

"What a big tone, what kind of wine is so powerful?"

"That's right, sir, if I drink alcohol, even if it's a large bowl, I can still serve ten bowls without blushing or panting!"

"Don't tell me, we have such a restaurant in Anping County. The Jinhua Pavilion's fine wine is drunk in the spring breeze. Ordinary people don't say three bowls. Even if they sniff it closely and smell it, they will be drunk for three days. Save manpower!"

"Hey, you poor man still know Jinhua Pavilion?"

"..."

There was a lot of discussion in the audience, Su Wen didn't care, and waited for everyone to pause for a while before continuing: "Today, the shopkeeper was keeping accounts in the shop, and suddenly saw a person striding in, found a table and chair at random, sat down, and called: Master Home, let's drink!
Hearing the loud and magnificent voice, the owner of the shop quickly raised his eyes and looked carefully, only to see a hero sitting in the middle.

What a hero?

But seeing him has a dignified body, a majestic appearance, a pair of eyes shooting cold stars, two curved eyebrows like lacquer paint, a broad chest, with a majesty that is invincible; The celestial lion descends from the clouds; the bones are strong and the tendons are strong, and the brave sits on the seat like a shaking earth, like a demon descended from the sky. It is really the god of Tai Sui in the world! "

"it is good!"

As soon as the voice fell, the whole house applauded.

"What a hero, what a good-looking, what a prestige!"

"Who is this person, tell me quickly!"

"Isn't this about me, sir?"

"Pooh!"

There was a lot of noise in the audience, and the gangsters in the front row felt their blood boil.

This is no exaggeration.

In the world that Su Wen travels to, although Quyi Zaju has also developed, it is far inferior to the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties before he traveled. It is still in a relatively primitive and backward stage, and the audience is relatively simple. , The audience's tastes are more and more picky, and they can find a lot of problems for you casually.

Quyi zaju in this world is like a cultural desert, only a few small oases exist.

There are very few authors who have the courage to innovate and the ability to innovate. Some storytellers can even hold a novel and tell a story for a lifetime. After finishing it, they can pass it on to their children and grandchildren.

If the author is the oasis in this cultural desert, then the audience is the people who depend on the oasis to survive. People drink the water produced by the oasis, even if the water is very muddy, everyone still thinks it tastes good, because only this water can Quench your thirst.

But now it's different, Wen Chao Gong Su Wen came to this world.

What is Water Margin?
One of the four classic classics!

Even in Su Wen's original world, it was a top-notch work in classical novels, and it was a blockbuster to this cultural desert with few innovations.

It doesn't even need to publish the whole book, only a section of it, a little description of the appearance of the characters, is very novel to these audiences, and it will not be incomprehensible, and the situation is unclear in the cloud.

This is also an advantage of Water Margin - contemporary!
Novels are time-sensitive. There are great differences between ancient novels and modern novels, and it is difficult to read through them.

The Water Margin that Su Wen is talking about now, to the audience in the audience, naturally there is no era difference, but if he talks about other things, for example, he starts with a sentence "Strength of fighting, three stages!"

What will happen to the audience in that audience?

Must be dumbfounded!
It's the same in reverse. If the original text of Water Margin is shown to readers who have experienced modern novels, most readers will find it boring, old-fashioned and boring.

This has nothing to do with whether the novel is good or not, it is a matter of age and acceptance.

Water Margin is more suitable for this era.

Therefore, it is normal for these local hooligans to be excited by Wu Song's appearance description.

Among them, who doesn't have a dream of being a hero?

Isn't that the great hero, the great hero, with such an appearance and such a majesty?
This is so touching!
As soon as Su Wen knocked on the folding fan, everyone in the audience was quiet for a while, and continued: "The owner of the store looks so handsome, so majestic, and suddenly he felt awe-inspiring, and he didn't dare to neglect in the slightest, so he immediately stepped forward to say hello: What kind of wine and meat does the guest officer want?"

The big man smiled, and said loudly: "Take the best wine and the best meat in your store, and give him two or three catties. I'm not afraid that I don't have money."

When the shop owner heard this, he immediately went back to the back kitchen, took out two catties of cooked beef, cut it into a large plate, took three big bowls and a jug of wine, and brought them to the hero's table one by one.

The man picked up the wine, drank it down, and was very surprised, shouting: "This wine is so strong!"

After finishing speaking, he picked up the remaining two bowls and poured them all into his mouth, feeling very bold.

After three bowls, the hero wanted to drink again, but saw that the shopkeeper had taken the wine jar away, he couldn't help frowning: "Master, why don't you come to sift the wine?"

The storekeeper hugged the wine jar and said with a smile: "I don't know, I only sell three bowls of this wine, if there are too many bowls, I won't sell it!"

"Oh?"

The hero was also surprised when he heard it: "Why only sell three bowls?"

The shopkeeper smiled and told him the origin of the three bowls of no post.

"I see!"

After hearing this, the hero immediately laughed: "Don't worry, shop owner, I'm not a common man. Don't talk about your village wine, even if you get sweat medicine, I can eat eighteen bowls of him. Don't talk about it, just sieve it. I'm not afraid that Wu Song will miss you." drink money."

"Wusong?"

Hearing the hero's name, the shopkeeper was also surprised, and shouted: "But Erlang from the Wu family in Yanggu County?"

Wu Song raised his eyebrows: "Does the store know Wu Song?"

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Erlang of the Wu family is a great hero in Yanggu County. He once killed a bully who ran rampant in the village with his bare hands and wiped out the evil for the people of Yanggu County. ?”

Wu Song killed a bully in the street?

This is somewhat different from the original text of Water Margin.

In the original text of the Water Margin, it is written that Wu Song was in Qinghe County, because he was drunk after drinking, and had a secret dispute with his office.He only knew that he was dead, so he fled all the way and went to Chaijin to escape disaster for more than a year. Later, he found out that the man was not dead, and if he was saved, he wanted to go back to his hometown to find his brother.

This is the original text.

But now it has been deleted and rewritten by Su Wen. Qinghe County and Yanggu County are merged into one place, and the "secrets of the office" that are officials have also been changed to local ruffians and bullies.

This deletion is to avoid risks. After all, Outlaws of the Marsh is an "anti-book".

The second is to establish a correct image of the characters. Most of the so-called heroes in the Water Margin are bandits and robbers, and there is no justice at all, which also paved the way for their later tragic ending.

If it is a purely literary novel, then such a character setting is naturally no problem, and even quite artistic.

But this is not a pure novel to Su Wen, he can summon the characters in the book and exist as book spirits.

So, is it better to summon a group of bandits and robbers to be book spirits, or to summon a group of heroes to be book spirits?
Even if Shuling would not betray the Lord of Book Mountain, Su Wen was more inclined to the latter.

In addition, there is another characteristic of Shushan, that is, the more popular and famous characters are, when summoning them into book spirits, the aura consumption will be reduced to a certain extent.

Therefore, Su Wen had to make some appropriate revisions to establish the justice of the characters in the book, especially Wu Song, a highly popular character who was bound to become a book spirit.

But this modification is not without limit. It is okay for insignificant places like now, even if there are some discrepancies with the original text, it will not affect it, but if it involves some important plots and key settings, the modification will consume aura.

After all, the content of the book collection is closely related to the treasure book realm of the book spirit. If it can be modified arbitrarily without any cost, wouldn't Su Wen be overwhelmed.

The Outlaws of the Marsh was directly changed to the Water Margin of Gods and Demons, one hundred and eight demon stars swept across the world, Song Jiang no longer took poison, but rebelled and ascended the throne, and even killed the Heavenly Court, becoming Song Tiandi, no matter how exaggerated, the higher the level of combat power, the better .

After this modification, the book spirit Song Jiang summoned by Su Wen is not the loyal official of the Song Dynasty who was poisoned to death by a treacherous official, but the Lord of Liangshan, the Emperor of the Three Realms, and the Tiankui Emperor who is second to none!

How could such a vulnerability exist?

Therefore, it is no problem to change the small details that are not important, but changes to important plots and important settings will consume aura. The bigger the change, the more consumption.

(End of this chapter)