My father is Jiajing

Chapter 337 Smart Man

"Who is Jin Yong?"

Huang Jin's sudden question also made Li Chunfang stunned.

He looked at Huang Jin in slight surprise. Huang Jin looked at Li Chunfang's surprised expression and seemed to have some guesses in his mind.

Huang Jin laughed and said, "I'm just asking casually. The story of The Legend of the Condor Heroes is pretty good. Can you help me ask Jin Yong if there are any subsequent chapters? I want to take a look."

Li Chunfang felt relieved after hearing what Huang Jin said. He was afraid that Huang Jin would get to the bottom of it.

At that time, no matter whether he says that Zhu Zaigui is Jin Yong or not, he will face a crisis of trust from Zhu Zaigui or Huang Jin.

After all, betraying one's master is a taboo in any era.

Therefore, the smartest way is to not say anything while at the same time conveying some information that others want to know. This is the most brilliant way.

Therefore, Li Chunfang's surprise and daze just now were just the right expression.

Without telling Huang Jin directly, he conveyed to Huang Jin a dilemma that he could not tell anyone.

So, after Huang Jin understood Li Chunfang's expression, he immediately smiled and said the rest of the words directly to prevent Li Chunfang from feeling embarrassed any further.

Li Chunfang heaved a sigh of relief and bowed to Huang Jin: "Eunuch, the subsequent chapters of The Legend of the Condor Heroes are here with me. According to my original plan, this novel was to be serialized in the Ming Dynasty magazine for half a year before the complete version was released."

"Because our magazine Da Ming Feng Hua is published monthly, and a novel like The Legend of the Condor Heroes has at least 80 chapters. If we only serialize two chapters per issue, it will take several years to serialize, which obviously does not meet the prince's expectations and requirements for us."

"So, after discussion between this humble official and the prince, any serialized novel that can be selected for the "Da Ming Feng Hua" magazine will be sold in its entirety after six months of serialization. This will prevent people who like the novel from waiting too long, and prevent more excellent novels from missing out on the opportunity to be recommended for serialization by "Da Ming Feng Hua"."

What Li Chunfang said was actually a small suggestion made by Zhu Zaigui after he gave him "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

After all, in Zhu Zaigui's opinion, if "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" really had to be serialized at the rate of two chapters per issue, with a total of eighty chapters in the whole book of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", wouldn't it take six or seven years to serialize it?
Obviously this was not in line with the normal logic of the story, so Zhu Zaigui gave Li Chunfang a small suggestion, asking him to serialize "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" for half a year to see the market's response to this story.

If the response is good, we will publish a complete printed version for sale half a year later. If the response is not good, we will simply cancel the "serial novel" column and avoid such pretentious innovations in the future.

Now that the first two chapters have just been released, they have attracted the attention of Huang Jin, which also makes Li Chunfang feel pleasantly surprised.

Therefore, Li Chunfang naturally did not hide the subsequent plan anymore, but directly told Huang Jin.

When Huang Jin heard that there was a complete story, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Huang Jin said, "Show it to our family quickly."

Huang Jin couldn't wait to look at Li Chunfang.

Li Chunfang looked at the anxious Huang Jin and without hesitation, he directly took the manuscript of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" sent by Zhu Zaigui.

Li Chunfang said, "Eunuch, I haven't had time to ask the proofreader at the bookstore to copy this manuscript. After you have read it, I will take it back and continue to arrange the second issue."

Huang Jin couldn't help but hum happily, "Don't worry, we will have someone send it to you as soon as we finish reading it, and it will definitely not delay your second issue." Li Chunfang bowed to Huang Jin, "Thank you, eunuch."

Then Huang Jin took the manuscript of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" back with excitement.

Li Chunfang looked at Huang Jin who was leaving and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "I hope the prince won't blame me."

There was a reason why Li Chunfang sighed like this, because he directly gave Zhu Zaigui's handwritten draft to Huang Jin. Although this handwritten draft was written very sloppily and contained many abbreviated characters, anyone who was familiar with Zhu Zaigui's handwriting should be able to tell who wrote it.

So, Li Chunfang sighed like this after Huang Jin left.

He really didn't want this to happen, but Huang Jin would come here at this time and was so concerned about "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". At first, one could think that this was Huang Jin's personal hobby.

However, as time went by and his mind calmed down, Li Chunfang naturally guessed the real reason behind it.

And the reason was that he had to see through it but not say it out loud, and pretend to be ignorant. So in order to be both loyal and filial, Li Chunfang naturally gave the handwritten manuscript sent by Zhu Zaigui to Huang Jin.

And there is another more important reason why Li Chunfang did this, that is when Zhu Zaigui gave him the manuscript, he never asked him to keep it secret.

Therefore, when facing Huang Jin and the person behind Huang Jin, Li Chunfang naturally chose to play dumb.

Only in this way can Li Chunfang avoid offending both sides.

Huang Jin happily returned to the West Garden with the manuscript of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" excitedly.

Huang Jin did not expect that there was a complete manuscript of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". He originally thought that it would be very good if he could find three or four more chapters. He did not expect Li Chunfang to be so helpful and directly gave him the entire manuscript.

Huang Jin carefully looked at the manuscript in his hand. When he saw the words on the manuscript, the smile on his face deepened.

"It is indeed Prince Yu's handwriting."

Huang Jin had the most dealings with Zhu Zaigui, and he was very familiar with Zhu Zaigui's handwriting and calligraphy.

Although the handwriting of this manuscript is more sloppy than Prince Yu's usual handwriting, and most of the characters used are abbreviated characters, the feeling between the lines is unmistakable; this is definitely Prince Yu's handwriting.

"I really don't know what's wrong with Prince Yu's head? Could this be the legendary innate wisdom? This is the sign of a saint!"

Huang Jin's imagination of Zhu Zaigui reached a point that even he felt terrified.

However, Huang Jin was still very clear about his position. Although Zhu Zaigui's performance made him want to pledge allegiance involuntarily, he knew that he could only be loyal to one person, and that was the current emperor. No matter how good or powerful the others were, he had to stick to his bottom line and understand his own sense of propriety and position.

Therefore, no matter how optimistic Huang Jin was about Zhu Zaigui, he could only look at him with the mentality of a servant looking at his young master, that is, with the mentality of a servant looking at his master.

This is also the important reason why Huang Jin has always been trusted by Emperor Jiajing.

(End of this chapter)