Yang Ding hurriedly said: "Brother Yue, Yue Ya, today I will formally introduce you two. This girl is Miss Sun Yuying, the daughter of Sun Magistrate County."

"Ah, the county master's daughter, Yang Ding, what do you mean?"

Yang Ding smiled and said: "Brother Yue, please sit down. This time I and Yuying invite Brother Yue and Yue Ya over. We want to discuss with them about opening a book club."

"Book club? Yang Ding, do you really want to open a book club? Weren't you joking before?" Yue Gang looked at Sun Yuying on the side. Since the daughter of the county magistrate has also appeared here, doesn't it mean that this girl Sun is also here?

Interested in getting involved?

Yang Ding shook his head and said: "Brother Yue, I am serious. This time, not only me, but Miss Yuying also intends to participate."

Yue Gang said: "In that case, what are you going to do when you call Yue Ya over?"

Yang Ding said: "Miss Yuying and I are both officials in the yamen, and it is not convenient for us to open a shop, so I want Yue Ya to take over the position of shopkeeper temporarily!"

"Oh? Me? Brother Yang, I, I'm afraid!" Yue Ya said hurriedly.

"Yes, Yang Ding, my sister has never read books, and you are running a book club business. I'm afraid my sister is not suitable. Otherwise, you should stop doing the job of a book clerk and concentrate on running the book club!" Yue Gang also said

.

Yang Ding smiled and said: "I know that Sister Yue Ya is a bit reluctant to be the shopkeeper now, so that's why Miss Yu Ying appears here. Miss Yu Ying is willing to teach Sister Yue Ya to read and read in person. Brother Yue, this is a big deal."

Good thing, what do you think?"

"Ah? Miss Sun, you, are you willing to teach Yue Ya how to read and write? But I'm afraid that I will be stupid and let down Miss Sun's expectations!" Yue Ya said nervously.

Sun Yuying said with a smile: "I think Miss Yueya is very smart, and I have seen how smart Miss Yueya is. I think Miss Yueya is the most suitable person to be the shopkeeper of this book club!"

"Yang Ding, I want to hear your plan first. If your plan is feasible and you can make money, I can't help but pull my three brothers over. I'll admit my sister as well!" Yue Gang saw the county magistrate.

All the master’s daughters are involved. No matter how stupid he is, he knows that this is a huge opportunity. This business is 80% profitable.

Yang Ding thought for a while and said: "It is best for our book club not to do some business of buying and selling books at the beginning. After all, our book club has just opened and the customer base is limited. It is difficult to make money in a short period of time."

"Then what do you want to do?" Yue Gang asked.

"Sell newspapers!" Yang Ding said with a smile.

"Selling newspapers? What is a newspaper?" Sun Yuying frowned and asked with some confusion.

Yang Dingdao: "The newspaper is similar to the Di Bao published by the Department of General Affairs, except that instead of printing national events, we print some story books, picture books and some interesting stories!"

"Then who will write these stories?" Sun Yuying asked again.

Yang Ding pointed to himself with a smile and said: "I am the editor-in-chief, and Yuying you are the deputy editor-in-chief."

With that said, Yang Ding pointed to his head again and said: "Everything in it is a story!"

No one present had any doubt about Yang Ding's ability to tell stories. Yang Ding's head is full of all kinds of strange and weird stories. As long as the stories are strange enough, they will definitely attract many readers.

"Yang Ding, then this newspaper

How much do you plan to sell it for?" Sun Yuying calculated it and asked again.

"The first three issues are given away for free, and starting from the fourth issue, each copy is a penny. We will publish one issue every week, and we will see the benefits by the end of the month."

Sun Yuying said again: "Yang Ding, why don't you tell your story and listen to it first? If we think it sounds good, then we can try it out in a magazine first!"

Yang Ding smiled and said: "Okay, then I will tell a story about "Kao Cheng Huang"!"

""Testing the City God"? Yang Ding, this City God is an immortal who protects the city. How can the City God also take the exam?" When it came to telling stories, everyone became interested. When Yang Ding told another fairy story, they

Everyone became more interested.

Yang Ding smiled and did not answer, and then told the story of "Kao Cheng Huang": "Once upon a time, there was a local man named Song, named Song Tao. One day, he was ill in bed and saw a small official holding a

Post, lead a white-topped horse to come to him---"

This story is not long, and it only took Yang Ding half a stick of incense to tell it, but the novelty of this story is something they have never heard of.

In the Ming Dynasty, stories about talented people, beauties and ordinary families are more popular than ever, but Yang Ding went in the opposite direction. He started with the first short article "Kao Chenghuang" in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and told a story about a more complicated story.

Weird and interesting story.

As for why Yang Ding chose "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" as the opening chapter of the newspaper, that's because most of the articles in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" are short stories, which are suitable for the current circulation of newspapers. In addition, it is because of the length of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"

There are so many. If I only told one story every week, I would tell some.

Another least-known reason is that Pu Songling, the author of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", is from Zichuan County, Jinan Prefecture, and Yang Ding's current location is Le'an County, Qingzhou Prefecture, Le'an County and Zichuan County

There is only a hundred kilometers between them, and most of the entire "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" is about the story of Jinan Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture.

Since you want to plagiarize, why can't you plagiarize more seriously? This can be regarded as Yang Ding's deep respect for Mr. Pu Songling.

As for whether the story told by Yang Ding is attractive, Yang Ding has no doubt that the birth of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" directly pushed classical Chinese short stories to a new level, which also led to the loss of classical Chinese novels in the future.

, even Ji Yun's "Notes from the Yuewei Thatched Cottage" has a hard time standing in front of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"!

Sure enough, after Yang Ding finished telling "Kao Cheng Huang", everyone was already fascinated. Yue Gang and Yue Ya just thought the story was wonderful, but Sun Yuying could hear the deep artistic conception behind the story.

"One person and two people, are they intentional or not? If they intend to do good, they will not be rewarded even though they are good; if they do not intend to do evil, even though they are evil, they will not be punished! Spring is always there when there are flowers and wine, and the night will be bright without candles and lights." Sun Yuying repeated it several times.

The story Yang Ding told me made me think about it for a long time.

"Yang Ding, did you write this or did you hear it?" Sun Yuying looked at Yang Ding with strange eyes and asked.

"I heard it from a layman who stayed in immortality!" Yang Ding said without thinking.

Sun Yuying slowly shook her head and said: "Yang Ding, you'd better hear these stories, otherwise I will definitely regret it!"

"Regret? What do you regret?" Yang Ding looked at Sun Yuying, who was a little weird today, and asked.

Sun Yuying still shook her head slowly and said: "It's nothing, Yang Ding, this story alone can't be printed on a whole page.

, and you also want words to be printed on both the front and back, so what are you going to do with the remaining positions?"

Yang Ding smiled and said: "I also have an attractive little game, which I plan to serialize slowly."

"Serial? What mini-game?"

Yang Ding said: "You should all know the twelve zodiac signs, right?"

When Yang Ding saw Yue Gang looked at him with contempt, Sun Yuying finally said: "Yang Ding, what do you want to say? The twelve zodiac signs at least originated in the pre-Qin Dynasty. There are also detailed records in "Lunheng" written by Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty. They are also twelve

The representative of the earthly branches, Yang Ding, the story of the twelve zodiac signs has been circulated for a long time, so it’s hard to make a fuss about it!”

When Yue Gang heard Sun Yuying's eloquent talk of quoting scriptures, he couldn't help but secretly shrink his neck. He really wanted to laugh at Yang Ding just now, but in the end he held it back because Sun Zhixian's daughter was here.

But now when he heard that the twelve zodiac signs mentioned by Sun Yuying were completely different from the legendary stories of the twelve zodiac signs he had heard, he realized that what Yang Ding was talking about was the true origin of the twelve zodiac signs, which was different from what he knew.

The legends are completely two different things.

"Yu Ying, I don't want to make a fuss about the twelve zodiac signs, but I want to create a story similar to the twelve zodiac signs!" Yang Ding explained.

"What? You want to create a story similar to the twelve zodiac signs? Yang Ding, please tell me!"

Yang Dingdao: "My story is called the Twelve Constellations. They are Aries, Shepherd, Yin and Yang, Scorpio, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Goat, Aquarius and Pisces!"

The names of these twelve constellations were slightly changed by Yang Ding in order to be more suitable for the history and culture of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise it would be troublesome for Yang Ding to explain them in the future.

"Yang Ding, these names sound weird, so how are these seats divided?"

Yang Dingdao: "I divided these constellations according to the twenty-four solar terms. People born from the Spring Equinox to Guyu are Aries, people born from Guyu to Xiaoman are Taurus, people born from Xiaoman to Summer Solstice are Yin and Yang, and summer solstice

People born from the summer to the autumnal equinox are Virgos, those born from the autumnal equinox to the frost are Libras, those born from the frost to light snow are Scorpios, and those born from the light snow to the summer are Scorpios.

Those born on the winter solstice are Sagittarius, those born between the winter solstice and the Great Cold are Capricorns, those born between the Great Cold and the rain are Aquarius, and those born between the rain and the Vernal Equinox are Pisces.”

After Yang Ding finished speaking, everyone fell into silence, as if they were digesting the twelve constellations divided by Yang Ding.

After a long time, Sun Yuying said: "The twenty-four solar terms are specific festivals in the Ganzhi calendar that represent the changes in natural rhythms and establish the 'Twelve Months'. The Twelve Months are the basic content of the Ganzhi calendar and echo the twelve earthly branches.

, and there are twelve constellations in the December Jianzhong. The twelve constellations correspond to the horoscopes and are mainly used for divination and prediction of good and bad luck. In layman's terms, these are the sun, moon and stars. Yang Ding, you want to get a set of horoscopes for divination.

?”

Ah? Yang Ding looked at Sun Yuying in surprise. His previous idea was very simple. He wanted to introduce the twelve constellations of Western astrology to attract the public's attention and sell more newspapers. But who would have thought that Sun Yuying would perfectly
Chapter completed!