Lady forced to seek prince

Chapter 205 Cheap Booklet
A few guys from the pen and ink shop still kicked them out.

The shopkeeper's face was very ugly, no matter what the person who just shouted was telling the truth, yelling at the door of their shop would always affect the business of the shop.

The shopkeeper angrily scolded the man: "Even if Zhang Yuan has something to do with us, what does it matter to us? If you talk nonsense, be careful that the guards will take you to the government office."

Hearing this, the man immediately looked around, for fear that there were indeed guards on patrol.

"I'm kind," the man said, "I want you to prepare early so that you won't be implicated by Zhang Yuan. Who told you that you are only willing to buy books annotated by Zhang Yuan."

"Do you still think that Zhang Yuan will be able to pass the imperial examination in the future? Zhang Yuan is not the only one in Northwest China."

The spectators also understood a little at this time, the person who shouted should also be a scholar, he is definitely not as good as Zhang Yuan on weekdays, now that something happened to Zhang Yuan, he can't wait to publicize it everywhere.

Such people are not uncommon.

There were also people who knew Zhang Yuan in the crowd.

Zhao Luoyang listened to their whispered discussions.

"It's the very famous Zhang Xiucai, who is said to be the number one student in Northwest China."

"Several government schools are vying to let him apply for the exam."

"Yes, the book annotated by Zhang Xiucai is also very good. My younger brother read that book and passed the Xiucai exam this year."

"A few days ago, I passed by the government school and saw many people behind Zhang Xiucai. Among the scholars here, who doesn't know Zhang Yuan! He also said that he failed to catch up with the provincial examination this year, otherwise he must be the master of Juren now. .”

"Could Zhang Xiucai kill people?"

"It's a lie! Didn't Zhang Yuan mean that he was kind-hearted, and gave the money from selling books to the scholars who were rushing for the exam? He also taught a few children, but he just collected some coarse grains for repairing."

"That's not necessarily true, and the rumors don't know if they are true or not. Maybe Zhang Yuan did this for the sake of fame. Who knows what he is thinking?"

"Does he even dare to miss the female relatives in the village? If the people in the village find out, what good will it do? I'm afraid he will..."

The people who spoke looked at each other with a bit of fear in their eyes, and they didn't say everything behind.

Zhao Luoyang understood what he heard, and he said to Shi Jiu in his mind: "It seems that Ah Shu's case has made progress again."

Shi Jiu said, "Where is that Zhang Yuan? Even if there are portraits and the clothes of the village children's family members, Ah Shu's death may not necessarily be related to him. If he is still there, it should not be difficult to find out."

Zhao Luoyang said: "You mean, this Zhang Yuan may..."

Shi Jiu said: "The man said that Zhang Yuan was admitted to the government school, but the people from the government school couldn't find Zhang Yuan, so they entered Zhang Yuan's home."

Zhao Luoyang said: "If he couldn't find anyone everywhere, he wouldn't easily break open the door of someone's house. Moreover, Zhang Yuan also knows that the government school has recently released the list, so he should wait for the news at home."

An unreasonable situation has occurred, and there is a high possibility that there is a problem.

"Let's go." The shopkeeper couldn't bear it anymore, he stepped forward and snatched the book from the man's hand, and then signaled the assistant to drive the man away.

The clerks of the shop came forward, the man turned his eyes, and immediately took two steps back, seeing that the clerk didn't chase after him, he shouted again: "Wait for the news, maybe the yamen will come looking for you."

When the man walked away, the crowd gradually dispersed.

The shopkeeper frowned, and led the buddy into the shop.

Zhao Luoyang and Shi Jiu said, "Let's go in and have a look."

Originally, she was going to buy pens and inks and other things, but now that she encountered such a thing, she naturally couldn't let it go.

The shopkeeper walked into the shop and ordered the clerk to tidy up all the things that the man had messed up. Then he looked at the book Zhang Yuan annotated in his hand and couldn't help sighing. He hadn't seen Zhang Yuan for several days, and he didn't know that man What you say is true.

The clerk stepped forward and said, "Why don't you go and ask Zhang Xiucai?"

"He often goes to those few places. Anyone who is familiar with him knows that the people from the government school must have been there." The shopkeeper smoothed the man's crumpled book, "You go to work, I will go and have a look later .”

As soon as the shopkeeper finished speaking, a voice said: "Shopkeeper, are you from Jiangnan?"

The shopkeeper raised his head and saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl.

The girl was accompanied by two half-grown boys.

"I am," the shopkeeper subconsciously said, "You guys... come from Jiangnan?"

Zhao Luoyang shook his head, showing dimples with a smile: "No, on our way to Taozhou, we came across a medicine shop, and the shopkeeper there was also from Jiangnan. He spoke very nicely, and I immediately remembered it."

The last half of Zhao Luoyang's sentence was still spoken in Jiangnan's accent. It sounded blunt and not very similar, but it made the shopkeeper laugh.

"It's true what you said," the shopkeeper said after finishing speaking, "What are you here to buy?"

Zhao Luoyang nodded: "We are migrants. We were naturalized in Taozhou. When we went to the city, we wanted to buy some books, pens and inks. We don't know much about them. We only need cheap and easy-to-use ones."

After saying this, Zhao Luoyang took Zhao Yuanrang and Zhao Yuanji to salute the shopkeeper.

Zhao Xuejing stood by and listened, without interrupting, but when the shopkeeper looked over, he smiled and nodded.

The shopkeeper looked at these people, their clothes were all patched, it was obvious that the family was not rich, and it was not easy to think about buying these things.

The shopkeeper said: "Do you have any scholars in your family?"

Zhao Luoyang nodded: "My father, third uncle, and fourth uncle all read books, and my brothers and I can also read. There are elders in the family who taught us, but something happened on the road, books and so on are gone, so we need to buy something to make do with it first. The shopkeeper helped us find some cheap ones. In the future, when our family situation gets better, we will come again and buy more."

The shopkeeper knew that relocation was not easy, he saw many relocations coming and going in the city, but it was the first time to come to buy things.

The shopkeeper immediately looked around and pointed to the pen and ink next to him: "These are good, not expensive, but they can be used."

"If you buy paper, if you don't dislike it, there are some backlogs of old goods, and the corners are not very good, but it will not be a problem after cutting."

"As for the books..."

The shopkeeper thought of the age of the child's family members, who read books for the imperial examination. On weekdays, he would take out the books annotated by Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan didn't make much money and sold them cheaply for those manuscripts.

But now that something happened with Zhang Yuan, the shopkeeper can't take it out again: "I'll look for it for you, and you can choose."

"The shopkeeper," Zhao Luoyang said, "on the way we came, we met a man who said that Zhang Xiucai is famous here, and he asked me to come to you to buy Zhang Xiucai's books."

Zhao Xuejing blinked, didn't they just come here by chance?Why did Sister Luo say that they found this shop on purpose?
And Zhao Yuanrang and Zhao Yuanji next to him also nodded.

What happened?
What does Sister Luo want to do?In order to lower the shopkeeper's price, or to inquire about the case of Zhaizi?He's not stupid either, they found Bubo on the Huangjiazhuangzi before, and on the way here, Sister Luo met people from the village again, and she obviously took this matter to heart.

The shopkeeper sighed: "On weekdays, I would let you buy Zhang Yuan's books, but...you didn't hear what that person said just now? I don't know if something happened to Zhang Xiucai?"

Zhao Luoyang looked blank: "I heard it, but many people said that it must be fake. Zhang Xiucai is kind-hearted and talented. He doesn't seem like that kind of person."

This said to the heart of the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper said: "I also think that Zhang Xiucai can't do that kind of thing. The Zhang family has been in Taozhou for some years. Zhang Yuan's father was a scribe for Jiang Zhizhou. Later, Xu Shen succeeded Zhizhou and invited Zhang Yuan's father. .”

Zhao Luoyang's mind flashed, the name Xu Shen had been seen in Bai's introduction.She seemed to understand him. Jiang Zhizhou was the governor of Taozhou before Xu Shen.

After such a calculation, Zhao Luoyang and Shi Jiu said: "When the people in the village moved to Taozhou, the governor of Taozhou at that time was probably the Jiang Zhizhou."

Shi Jiu was familiar with Taozhou's previous magistrates.

After Jiang Wei took office in Taozhou five or six years ago, Jiang Wei passed away due to illness four years ago, and the post of governor of Taozhou fell to Xu Shen.

Later, Sun Ji discovered the evidence of Xu Shen's corruption of ink, and joined forces to pull Xu Shen down in one fell swoop. Sun Ji wanted to take this opportunity to become the magistrate of Taozhou, and wrote a letter to ask the palace for help.

He once asked someone to investigate Sun Ji, but he didn't like his character, so he didn't extend his hand to help, so Taozhou Zhizhou fell on Zhang Ting's head.

How could Sun Ji reconcile, he hibernated in Taozhou for many years, and dealt with Zhang Ting again, this time he secretly climbed into the Feng family, and finally after Zhang Ting was imprisoned, Sun Ji took Taozhou into his hands.

So in the past few years, Taozhou has changed four prefects.

Naturally, Shi Jiu couldn't tell Zhao Luoyang about the past, but said: "It should be."

The shopkeeper went on to say: "Zhang Yuan's father and mother passed away one after another a few years ago, and Zhang Yuan was the only one left in the Zhang family. Zhang Yuan will not do anything out of the ordinary, let alone Zhang Yuan has a bright future."

"If it's true... then it really shouldn't be, he's only eighteen or nineteen years old."

The shopkeeper looked at the book in his hand, and felt that he had said too much, and he was also emotionally fluctuating, so he said: "If you don't care whether those words are true or false, you can buy his book."

"This booklet has been folded. If you want it, just take it for five hundred coins!"

Zhao Luoyang naturally agreed that a book would sell for at least [-] yuan, and five hundred wen was very little, and he could get to know Zhang Yuan more through the book.

"Then thank you shopkeeper, I want to buy something else," Zhao Luoyang said, "but right now I don't have any money, so I need to sell something."

"I just asked you, who should I sell the fur to? On the way we met the servants of Liu's shop and said that their family charged the highest price. I don't know if it's true."

Zhao Xuejing understood that the little niece had inquired about Zhang Yuan, and she also wanted to inquire about the Liu family. This matter was clearly arranged by her.

I bought cheap books, and I was able to inquire about all kinds of news, and I also made the shopkeeper happy.

With this ability, who can match it?

(End of this chapter)