"Good! What a poem!"

"Little friend Jiang, come and tell us about this new legend of the White Snake."

Mr. Wu and several of his book club friends all showed expectant expressions.

People around him also cheered and came closer.

"Junior, I obey!"

Jiang Chen was not reserved and spoke directly in the audience.

As a result, more and more people gathered around him, and gradually more than half of the guests on the first floor came over...

This made Lu Wenbin on the stage embarrassed and annoyed. He couldn't help shouting at the top of his lungs: "Jiang, please lower your voice. You are disturbing the distinguished guests on the second floor who are listening to the book."

Jiang Chen was interrupted and could only stop helplessly.

Unexpectedly, several loud shouts rang out from the second floor overhead:

"Lu, you are the one who disturbed us! You should keep your voice down!"

"That's right! Every day it's either White Snake or Three Points. My ears are ringing. It's rare to hear something novel and interesting. Don't make any noise!"

"If you ask me, Mr. Lu, why don't you just go down and accept the reward, and let the little scholar speak instead, so that everyone can hear it fresh."

"That's how it should be! Take the reward and get down quickly!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several copper coins were thrown from the second floor.

Bang bang bang...

The copper coins hit the high platform one after another, like slaps hitting Lu Wenbin's fat face with an extremely loud sound.

He was so ashamed that he blushed and felt ashamed. He couldn't help but stare at Jiang Chen with eyes filled with resentment and said, "Jiang, for today's humiliation, Lu will definitely repay you tenfold in the future!"

After that, he lowered his head and walked quickly outside the restaurant...

Um?

Want to run away after saying harsh words?

With a smirk on his face, Jiang Chen rushed up and grabbed Lu Wenbin: "Old man Lu, don't leave!"

"Well……

Let me go! Don’t you think you’ve humiliated me enough?”

Lu Wenbin was trembling with anger and breathing heavily.

"Old man Lu, if you hadn't slandered me first, I wouldn't have spoken Newspeak to prove my innocence.

Is it wrong for me to prove my innocence? Can you be reasonable?"

Jiang Chen grabbed Lu Wenbin tightly with an innocent look on his face.

"That's right! Lu Wenbin, you shot yourself in the foot this time. You can't blame Jiang Chen!"

Mr. Wu and others nodded in agreement.

"you……"

Lu Wenbin was so depressed that he almost vomited blood. He gritted his teeth and glared at Jiang Chen: "What do you want? Do I have to apologize to you?"

"Uncle Lu, you have misunderstood this junior!"

Jiang Chen shook his head and said with a kind look on his face: "I'm worried that when the Newspaper Version comes out, it will destroy the jobs of you and those seniors who tell the story of White Snake.

I thought that if you don’t mind, you can copy me when I’m telling stories, and then make money by telling stories at different times and places. I, Jiang Chen, don’t charge any fees, so isn’t this the best of both worlds?”

"Master Jiang, are you serious about what you said?"

"You will let us copy it without charging any fee, and talk about this Newspeak version?"

Several middle-aged literati stared at Jiang Chen with passionate eyes.

"Of course I take it seriously! I, Jiang Chen, have always kept my word and I will practice it!"

Jiang Chen definitely nodded.

"Young Master Jiang is so righteous!"

"I'll thank Mr. Jiang!"

"Lu Wenbin, look at Young Master Jiang, and then look at yourself, do you still have the bearing of a scholar? Why don't you apologize to Young Master Jiang!"

"That's right! Lu Wenbin, you first made slanderous remarks and then made false statements. You should indeed apologize to Mr. Jiang!"

"..."

While everyone praised Jiang Chen, they also criticized Lu Wenbin.

Lu Wenbin was dumbfounded!

He never imagined that not only would he lose face by this quarrel, but his reputation would be ruined.

Just as his face was full of panic and confusion, Jiang Chen suddenly stroked his bald head kindly: "Old man Lu, your hair is messed up!"

Well--

Lu Wenbin was so angry that his face turned green. Just when he was about to curse, Jiang Chen spoke again:

"Actually, this junior doesn't want you to apologize, but I can't bear to ruin your livelihood just because of my anger, so I want you to stay and copy the script, maybe in the future..."

"No, I don't need it!

Even if I, Lu Wenbin, die of poverty and starvation, I won’t tell you what you say! Let’s wait and see!”

Lu Wenbin violently threw Jiang Chen away, covering his bald head that had been violated by Jiang Chen, and rushed out of Wangyue Tower as if he was running away.

this……

"Why is Mr. Lu so heartless?"

"Obviously he was at fault in the first place, but Mr. Jiang doesn't even bother with him, yet he still...sigh!"

Everyone looked at Lu Wenbin's back and shook their heads in disappointment.

Shopkeeper Pan, who was thinking about how much benefit Newspeak could bring to Wangyue Tower, stared at Jiang Chen with gleaming eyes, smiled and said, cupping his hands:

“Young Master Jiang’s magnanimity and righteousness are truly admirable!

Pan Shiyan, the shopkeeper of Wangyue Tower, would like to invite you to storytell here in the future. I wonder what Young Master Jiang would like?"

"I have my wish, but I dare not ask for my ear!"

Jiang Chen smiled and returned the salute, and then started working amidst the urging of everyone.

Although there is no professionalism at all, it is also lifelike, and the story is novel and exciting, and everyone listens to it with gusto.

At the end of the game, apart from the "tea money" given to the steward and the reward to the man who helped pick up the money, I got three coins of silver and more than one hundred and seventy copper coins.

After calculation, I could buy about thirty-three liters of rice or eight pounds of coarse salt. However, after treating Mr. Wu and others to an afternoon tea, I only had seventy copper coins left.

Helpless, he could only give another lecture at the suggestion of shopkeeper Pan, and then walked out of Wangyue Tower with smoke in his throat.

…

Just as he was thinking about his next plan to make money, his cousin, who had taken a temporary leave of absence, caught up with him with a friendly face:

"Brother Chen, you are really good at it. Now Yue Niang is lucky! Why don't we go back and celebrate with two jins of good wine?"

"Who are you?" Jiang Chen asked with a frown.

"I...I am your cousin." Liu Zongyuan looked confused.

“I don’t have a cousin who refuses to treat me to noodles!”

Jiang Chen walked away without acknowledging his relatives.

"Brother Chen, you have misunderstood my cousin! My cousin has no money..."

My cousin was stuck behind Jiang Chen like a piece of candy.

…

At dusk, Reed Alley, next to Huimin Canal.

Liu Yueniang, who was wearing a power fence, rubbed her sore waist and looked at the Yisheng Bridge separated by a piece of reed with bitterness and expectation.

When Liu Mingjie and the other seven or eight young ladies who also covered their heads and faces with power fences saw this, they couldn't help laughing again.

But my aunt secretly spat and said angrily:

"Don't look at it. It's better to hurry up and wash a few more clothes to earn some rice, lest the starving guy comes to my house to steal food again. It's really embarrassing!"

When Aunt Liu San heard this, she immediately said with a strange expression:

"Hmph! I insisted on marrying a scholar, but ended up marrying someone like this. I might as well have married my nephew! Who among the capable scholars would marry you, a mediocre person? What are you hoping for?"

"That's right!

My son said that only the most unpromising scholar in the world would marry a young widow. Don’t count on such a person, be careful if he becomes so poor that he sells you and Xiang’er!”

As Aunt Liu spoke, she stared at Xiang'er with fiery eyes.
Chapter completed!