Red Mansion Reader

Chapter 96

Hearing Sister Lin's question, Chen Heng turned his head and smiled at her, motioning everyone to go up first.

A group of five people climbed up the steps before entering the pavilion, and saw three more people.Chen Heng only knew Miaoyu, but it was the first time for the other two to meet.

After Daiyu's introduction, Chen Heng knew that they were the family members of Mr. Wei, the magistrate of Yangzhou, the two aunts Wei Qijun and Wei Shu.

Inside and outside the gazebo, there are four or five maidservants and three mature nuns who are responsible for taking care of the gathering.

One of the nuns was specially sent by the Wei family to serve the two ladies.

Like in the drama, the situation where the lonely man and the widow live together in the same place.It is absolutely impossible to put it in the home of a well-mannered rich family.

Jia Shi, who had a rare half-day leisure, half leaned on the soft couch by the window.She moved her eyes away from the books in her hands, and just raised her head slightly to get a panoramic view of the situation in the gazebo.

Seeing that all the guests had arrived for her daughter, she hurriedly asked the maid beside her to pass the message that she could serve some sweets, drinks and other things to the children.

The gazebo is not high, but it can have a panoramic view of the courtyard of the Lin Mansion.

On the left are Taihu stones transported from Suzhou. They are of various shapes, and they are thin, wrinkled, and natural.

The trickling pool water is hidden under it and covered by the bamboo forest in the distance.People can only hear the pleasant sound of water, but no trace of the pool water can be found.

It is said that there is water hidden in the Yangzhai.Chen Heng didn't know much about this, so he didn't know if it was true or not.

On the right side of the gazebo, there is a small pond surrounded by flowers.Blooming lotus, along the surface of the pool to the far.At the end of a piece of turquoise water, a white wall with blue tiles lies in front of you.On the white wall, there is a huge picture of mountains drawn with a lot of ingenuity and pen and ink.

There are many mountains, big and small, far and near, and they are reflected in the turquoise water.

The fusion of the two sceneries is truly amazing to the viewers.

Who said there are no mountains in Yangzhou!Romantic Yangzhou people, isn’t this painting mountains on the wall? !
Chen Heng thought of the plaque written by Uncle Lin's father on the gazebo: Lin Feng Pavilion.

It's really funny, funny.

The scholarly family is indeed an elegant and hidden scene, with thoughts in the scene.

A little bit of thought reveals another clever word.

After everyone sat down for a while, Mr. Wei Qi couldn't wait to take out the treasures he brought, a total of eight glasses sent from Guangdong Province.

Lin Daiyu organized this party to let Chen Heng see this thing.

Shen Tingfang, the prefect of Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, was the same year as Wei Yinghong and Lin Ruhai.There were often western ships passing by in their area. Shen Tingfang saw these cups by accident and thought they were very interesting, so she bought them and asked someone to take them to Yangzhou at the post station to open her eyes to the number one scholar.

Wei Yinghong played with them for a few days before giving them to Mr. Wei Qi.Just now, Wei Qijun came to play with Lin Daiyu with a glass.

Western things, after all, are new things in the eyes of children.

Even Xue Baoqin and Xue Biao, who have traveled to Zhenzhen Kingdom, think this thing is very impressive.

Chen Heng's focus was not on the glass.He has seen many similar and higher-end things in later generations.He only asked his sister softly: "Can the things from Guangzhou still be sent to Yangzhou through the post station?"

Lin Daiyu has always been well-read and memorized, and when she turned her head to think about it, she recalled the chats with her father and replied: "Anyone with official status can use it."

Seeing her brother's eyes light up slightly, she couldn't help explaining to Chen Heng, "It can't be used often. Generally, post stations are mainly for picking up documents, officials who are rushing to various places, and candidates for the imperial examination. If you use it more , the court censor will attend."

In officialdom, Lin Ruhai followed the path of a speech official.Under the influence of her ears and eyes, Lin Daiyu understood such things.

Chen Heng nodded with a smile, but felt that he knew a little more about Dayong Dynasty.

But Lin Daiyu remembered something, and asked in a low voice: "Brother, you haven't answered the question I just asked."

At this time, there was a table of people, Chen Heng and Xue Biao were sitting together, Baoqin was sitting on the left hand side of her elder brother, Daiyu was sitting on Chen Heng's right hand side, and Lin Jue was beside Daiyu.Only Wei Qijun, Wei Shu, and Miaoyu sat side by side across from each other.

Seeing Chen Heng and Daiyu talking together, Wei Qijun immediately refused to follow suit and said, "Okay, let's have fun together, why don't you brothers and sisters hide and whisper."

Her niece, Wei Shu, also nodded beside her, adding momentum to her aunt.

Lin Daiyu glanced at Chen Heng, saw him blinking slightly, then smiled and explained to the two handkerchiefs: "It's about the newspaper store. Didn't you also see it two days ago? Is Dengwen scolding Mr. Yuanhe?"

Wei Qijun and Wei Shu nodded, they are also aware of this matter.

Jing'an Daily, you can tell who runs it as soon as you hear the name.Neither Daiyu nor Baoqin thought of hiding it for their elder brother.

"Speaking of which, it seems to be those symbols used by Mr. Yuan He?" Wei Qijun also knew about this, and she asked the two owners of the newspaper shop, "Brother Chen and Brother Xue, do you know Mr. Yuan He's intentions?" ?”

Everyone who doesn't like to listen to gossip, most of the people at the table pricked up their ears.

Chen Heng and Xue Biao looked at each other, knowing that it would be more convenient for him to come out and talk about it.The two greeted each other tacitly, and Chen Heng coughed and said, "Those symbols, I remember that Mr. Yuan He used to call them punctuation marks..."

As soon as Lin Daiyu heard the first sentence, she couldn't help picking up a handkerchief to cover the corners of her mouth, fearing that others would see her smile.

Chen Heng briefly introduced the whole story to everyone.

It turns out that since "Shushan Swordsman Biography" was published in the newspaper, many literati and scholars have noticed Chen Heng's ",.:" "!?" and other symbols.

Chen Hengshen was afraid that others would not understand the meaning of the symbols when they came across this for the first time.At the end of each article, I deliberately do various science popularization.

There are three main types of punctuation marks used in serious books today, an uppercase period, a shape similar to an O, or a small vertical tick, and the last one is a comma:,

These three runes alone are not enough for reading scriptures.Therefore, when many masters teach students, they start by reading the clauses.Use the red line to divide the interval of each sentence, and let the students follow along.

This is called the master to lead in the door, and the practice is in the individual.

If there is no such senior, it is impossible for an ordinary person to read a set of Four Books and Five Classics thoroughly.

The monopoly of knowledge is often in the subtleties.

On the contrary, it is not what most people think, those high rules and thresholds.

The symbols used by Chen Heng in the script are regarded as a challenge by many literati.

Although it is just a script that cannot be put on the table, Chen Heng also explained at the end of the science popularization that these symbols are only for the convenience of reading the script.

But these punctuation marks are really easy to use.Let many people see the meaning of the author at a glance.

Chen Heng uses it because Shushan is a novel. If modern symbols are not used, it will be very exhausting when writing. After all, "Liao Zhai" is just a short story, so it won't be too tiring to create.

But if he didn't have the desire to popularize science by taking the opportunity, then Chen Heng certainly did.

Be aware of modern punctuation, officially in this land.Even in the previous life, we had to wait until the Reform Movement of 200 [-] years later, starting with Kang Youwei, Tan Sitong, and Liang Qichao.

Coincidentally, China's first private newspaper was also produced by these three people.There is also a saying that Kang Youwei ran it alone, and I will not argue here.

Compared with these three masters of Chinese studies, Chen Heng's reputation is naturally not enough.Naturally, he can only use the script to slowly promote this set of things in the dark.

After all, no one knows whether there will be such a reform in the future of the Great Yong Dynasty.

Chen Heng's matter is not a big deal.To put it mildly, complaints are definitely indispensable.

Some people scolded him because they thought he was degrading.Maybe this faceless Mr. Yuanhe, who is not even a Juren, dares to create his own symbols.

But most of them saw it and just laughed it off.After all, it's just a storybook novel.

It would be disrespectful if Chen Heng dared to use it in the Four Books and Five Classics.You must give a good account to the scholars of the world, why should you give the scriptures to the sages and break the words and sentences.

As for most people in Yangzhou, they are still happy to watch the excitement.For one thing, these symbols are really easy to read.Secondly, it is also interesting and fun to see people quarreling in newspapers.

Chen Heng himself didn't care at all, he was just a talking literati, if he had the ability to go past the Hu family, the Xue family, the Wang family and the government office, he rushed into the academy and beat him up in front of the head of the mountain.

Even Pei Huaizhen, the head of the mountain, saw these symbols and just commented "interesting" with a smile.

As long as you don't touch those taboo things, the folk customs of the Yong Dynasty are quite enlightened.

"What is the brother's newspaper shop going to do? Just let them scold Mr. Yuanhe like this?" Lin Daiyu asked curiously.

"No hurry, no hurry." Chen Heng smiled slightly, and looked at Xue Biao beside him, "Uncle Xue, he should already be dealing with this matter."

Xue Biao nodded with a smile on the side.

When Daiyu and Baoqin saw it, they knew that the two elder brothers had plans of their own, so they simply concentrated on accompanying the guests.

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When Xue Zhen walked out of the gate of the government office, she still felt a little unbelievable.

He came here precisely to donate the revenue Chen Heng mentioned to the Yangzhou government office.Xue Zhen originally thought that he would spend more words to convince Mr. Wei.

As a result, when Xue Zhen expressed his intention to come, Lord Wei had already ushered him into his seat with a smile on his face.

It's not that Wei Yinghong's eyes are wide open when he sees money. He is now in the limelight in his official career, so there is no need to covet such a small amount of money.I just feel that for a new thing like newspapers, it is safer to be controlled by the government nearby before it is reported to His Majesty.

Xue Zhen's delivery in such a good way fit Wei Yinghong's mind, and it just gave the government a reason to stretch out its hands in the future.

As for the little money that is not worth mentioning, Mr. Wei donated it to the major academies in Yangzhou, which can be regarded as subsidizing the scholars of their academies, of course, this is a later story.

After talking happily with Wei Yinghong, Xue Zhen sat in the carriage going back, still a little in disbelief.

Thinking back to when he rushed from Jinling to Taixing County to deal with a shopkeeper, he had to be shut down by the magistrate Xu.Look at today again, he was treated as a guest by the magistrate, and praised him for being kind and charitable after he came to Yangzhou, and he has the style of a Confucian businessman.

The treacherous changes in the situation before and after made him also sigh.I was a little excited again.

Sure enough, when the tired bird escapes from the cage, he knows the vast freedom of the world.

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On the ninth day of June, the new "Jing'an Daily" went on sale again in Yangzhou City.

This time the newspaper store supplied [-] copies, and it took two or three days before they were all sold out.

The content on paper is not much different from the previous issues.There was only one essay in bold and large characters, which attracted the attention of many down-and-out scholars in the city.

"At the end of last month, Mr. Yuanhe donated all the 20 taels of manuscript fee to the Nursing Home. Mr. Yuanhe is very grateful to this newspaper..."

The Nursing Home is a relief institution dedicated to caring for orphans, beggars, and the poor during the Yong Dynasty.

What the scholars are concerned about is naturally not that Chen Heng has done a good thing.They didn't expect that they could earn so much money by writing scripts for newspapers, and they all wanted to rush to the market to get a ticket.

By the end of the month, many novels using new punctuation marks came to Jing'an newspaper shop like birds dropping letters.

When Xue Biao told Chen Heng about this, he was very happy and felt that he had made the right move.

Sure enough, don't try to teach others how to do things.As long as you show them that you can make money with this method, smart people will naturally flock to it.

　I had a full sleep last night, and today I am much more comfortable, hahahahaha.Thank you book friends for your understanding and care, thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)