I Was a Copywriter in Ancient Times

During the Great Yan Dynasty in Ping'an County, Su Chang'an, a fallen scholar, wrote an anti-poetry on the wall of the inn. With the knife on his neck, he continued: "If all the flowers bloom, this body will fit in the wild wormwood." The murderous intention turned into a clear will, and the county magistrate put away the knife and gave him a name card. System activated, number of readers: zero. He told the story of a stone monkey jumping into a waterfall at the county school. The manuscript flowed into the teahouse, and the illiterate porter Wang Da squatted on the stone steps and asked his eight-year-old daughter to read to him. Thinking of Wukong breaking out of the Heavenly Gate and proclaiming himself the Monkey King, Wang Da stood up and walked around the room three times, crying as he walked. Later, he wrote policy papers about the old scribe who had been squatting in front of the tea horse department for forty years; he wrote essays about the child who threw himself into a well and turned into a cricket to pay off his father's debt. In three games, Yayuan Zhao Wenyuan lost three games in a row. He crossed out "I won't tell you either" at the end of the transcript and rewrote a line: "I said it. Tell me about my article." The results of the provincial examination were released, and Su Changan ranked fifth. When the good news came back to Pingan County, Wang Da squatted on the dock and buried his face in his knees; the blacksmith reworked the iron rod for the eleventh time; the fat aunt's wonton bowl was broken, and when put together, the word "note" was complete; Zhao Wenyuan added a line at the end of the copy of "Journey to the West" - "Chang'an is in the provincial capital, Wenyuan is in Ping'an. Across the river. The water can be crossed." From the county seat to the capital, from the imperial master to the hermitage, what he did was never copying, but "copying" - copying people from Ping'an County into the article, stroke by stroke. Later someone asked him what he wrote. He said: Everyone squatting by the river and watching the water flow.