Otoharu

Chapter 188 Cooperation
The next day, Li Yan couldn't let go of the content of "Journey to the West", so he went to ethnology with the manuscript.

But Mrs. Jiang waited patiently. When Jiang Shanqing came back from school at noon, she called him into her room and asked him very seriously: "Shanqing, you really want to buy a shop and open a bookstore. Do you have any plans?" Have you ever thought that if you take the road of being a merchant, you will not be able to take the imperial examination in the future?"

"Auntie, I didn't say my name was written in the shop, I thought it was written under your name or Meier's sister." Jiang Shanqing looked at Jiang Shi suspiciously, thinking that Li Meier didn't tell Jiang Shi This, the little girl is really unreliable.

Mrs. Jiang was also stunned for a moment, and it took a while to react, and then asked uncertainly: "You said you want to write the names of me and Mei Meier?" Jiang Shanqing replied calmly: "Yes."

"Shanqing, do you know how much silver is needed for a shop in an ordinary part of the state capital?" Jiang asked with a more serious expression.

"It must be a few hundred taels." Jiang Shanqing doesn't know much about the market in the state capital, but he can roughly estimate it.

"Since you know, you still dare to hand over these several hundred taels of silver to our mother and daughter, aren't you afraid that we won't return it to you after closing the shop?" Jiang looked at Jiang Shanqing with a strange expression and asked.

"Since I decided to write the shop under the names of my aunt and sister Meier, I trust your character. If I believe in the wrong person and you really don't return the shop to me in the future, then this shop will be regarded as my gift to Meier. The dowry for my son and sister." Jiang Shanqing said with a smile, his expression and tone were very generous.

Mrs. Jiang looked deeply at Jiang Shanqing for a while, and suddenly she couldn't see through this child who was only seven years old. He knew that his younger brother and husband spoke highly of this child, saying that he was a rare genius, and he would definitely be in the future. It is to make a big career, but in her opinion, this child is just matured a little earlier than ordinary children. In the past few years he has lived in her home, she has always treated him as a nephew, only as an immature She is an older child, but from today's perspective, she really can't treat him as a child anymore.

"Shanqing, I know that you have lofty aspirations, but opening a shop is always risky. According to my aunt's suggestion, I hope that you can sell the manuscript and make a fortune directly, which is more secure. , and I have already found a buyer for you, that is Xin Sanbo in our family. His family has a large-scale bookstore in the state capital. If we sell this manuscript to him, it will definitely give us a good deal. The price." After all, Mrs. Jiang is conservative in thinking, and only wants to earn money without risk or risk.

"Auntie, I still want to give it a try." Jiang Shanqing's attitude was very firm, but he quickly changed the topic, "But I think we can cooperate with him to do this business with Uncle Xin you mentioned. Now that there is a ready-made bookstore, we can print the books and put them in his shop for consignment, we will get the bulk, and he will take the small end, so there is no need to bother to open another bookstore.”

After thinking about it, Mrs. Jiang felt that this was a compromise, at least the risk was not that great.

"Okay, in a few days, I'll mention this to your third aunt first, to find out what she has to say."

"Auntie, when you tell her, don't say that Journey to the West was written by me, just say that it was written by a friend of my uncle's. That person doesn't like to socialize, so he asks my uncle to publish and sell the book." Jiang Shanqing thought for a while Think, and talk to Jiang again.

Jiang also felt that it was not good to expose Jiang Shanqing, after all, it was really shocking that a seven-year-old child could write such a masterpiece.

"Don't worry, aunt knows about this." Mrs. Jiang nodded in agreement.

Mrs. Jiang never likes to procrastinate. The next day, after Li Meier finished school at Mrs. Zhengu, she waited for the Wu family to pick up sister Li Yuanxia.

Due to her busy family affairs, Mrs. Wu would not go to pick up Li Yuanchun and Li Yuanxia in person every day. Most of the time, she asked her confidantes to pick them up.

Seeing Nanny Gui, Mrs. Jiang smiled and asked her, "Mother Gui, I wonder if your wife is at home today?"

Nanny Gui naturally recognized Mrs. Jiang, so she replied very respectfully, "Fifth Grandma is well, Madam is at home preparing for Master's birthday." Li Xin's birthday is early July, and this year is Li Xin's [-]th. Shou, of course he had to take care of it.

Mrs. Jiang knew that Mrs. Wu was busy, so she was a little embarrassed, wondering if she would be free to see him when she came to visit at this moment.

Seeing Jiang's hesitation, Nanny Gui asked, "Fifth Grandma, is there something for our wife?"

"There are some things. If your wife is inconvenient, then I will visit tomorrow." Jiang said with a smile.

"It's okay, fifth grandma, you go to the old slave's house first, the relationship between your wife and you has always been close, so you can spare some time." Nanny Gui said.

"Then there will be Madam Lao." Mrs. Jiang smiled at her gratefully, and went to Li Xin's house with them.

Li Yuanxia and Li Meier walked behind, they were secretly biting their ears.

"Mei Meier, why is your mother looking for my mother? She is very mysterious." Li Yuanxia was always a curious baby and couldn't help asking.

"I don't know, it's something to do anyway." Li Meier replied pretending not to know, she was still a child, how could she know about the affairs of adults.

"Don't inquire about this and that all day long, go back and practice calligraphy for me. Today, Aunt Zhen said that your bad handwriting is the worst. If you don't practice hard, be careful not to let you go to school in the future. "Li Yuanchun, who was walking behind the two of them, heard their conversation, and taught with a slightly cold face, very like a sister.

Li Yuanxia curled her lips a little dissatisfied, and muttered in a low voice, "Your writing is not very good, I think it is worse than Mei Meier..." Although her voice was quiet, Li Meier and Li Yuanchun were both close, obviously I heard it.

Both of them had bad expressions, Li Yuanchun was ashamed and Li Meier was embarrassed.Are you still a good friend? Don't bring hatred to her like this.

"Hey, Sister Yuanchun let me go, and Sister Yuanchun is so good at playing the piano, but I haven't read all the scores yet." Li Meier quickly smoothed things over for herself.

Li Yuanchun's face became better now, he smiled reservedly, and said modestly: "Aunt Zhen said that playing the piano mainly depends on comprehension, and I just have some comprehension in rhythm."

"That's right! That's right! Elder Sister Yuanchun has a high level of understanding." Li Meier immediately agreed, flattering for free.

The smile on Li Yuanchun's face became brighter, and he covered his lips and smiled slightly, "I got a few new silk flowers at my place a few days ago, and you can pick one, Sister Mei'er, and wear it for fun."

(End of this chapter)