Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 54 Bookstore
Taowan, the main hall of Zhang Family Courtyard.

The old uncle Zhang Hanlin sat at the top, Zhang Zhe as the host sat at the bottom left, next to him sat his old cousin Zhang Tai and Zhang Xiukan, opposite sat the father and son, they were the ones who fled after hearing about the accident in the Meng family Uncle Zhang Xu is a 16-year-old boy like a grown-up. This is his uncle's grandson, his distant cousin Zhang Qi, whose nickname is Yizai.

The old uncle was yelling at his son for being a jerk.

Forcing Zhang Xu, who is the cousin, to apologize to Zhang Zhe, he left without warning that day, which is considered to have poked the old uncle's wound.

However, there is no reason for the elders to apologize to the younger generation. The sensible Zhang Qi stood up, bowed to his cousin Zhang Zhe, and sincerely apologized.

"I think your book has been read into the stomach of a dog!" Zhang Hanlin always felt that his son was not like himself at all. He didn't treat Zhang Zhe and Zhang Tai as outsiders at all, and threw all terrible words at his son. , "One house and three families break the bones and connect the tendons. You see, everyone in Taiwan understands this truth. Why didn't I take Brother Tai to the city back then, and you farmed in Taowan instead!"

Uncle Zhang Xu was terrified of his father, and he was cautious in his temper. Whenever his father got angry, he would kneel on the ground, and then his son Zhang Qi would follow suit, and Zhang Zhe and Zhang Tai had to stand up too.

The old man didn't feel sorry for his son, but he loved his grandson very much. Seeing his grandson kneeling with his father a few times, he simply stopped looking at his son.

He smiled and pointed to his grandson and asked Zhang Zhe.

"Erlang, look at our family's brother Qi, who has been in school for seven years. I originally thought that he would take the exam next spring. Whenever you have time, you can help uncle give advice to this kid. I But I warned him, with your Erlang's current name, if he is not sure, he will definitely not let him into the examination room. If he fails the examination, wouldn't it ruin the reputation of the entire Zhang family."

Hearing his grandfather mentioning himself, Zhang Qi got up and greeted Zhang Zhe again.

Zhang Zhe saluted casually, but thought: I don't know who this kid's teacher is, and the apprentice he taught is so rigid and meaningless.

Meng Xiaowan happened to lead Bailu to bring up the tea soup, seeing that Zhang Zhe was a little rude, she gave him a light look.

Zhang Zhe understood in seconds, so he turned his expression a little more serious.

Meng Xiaowan was both funny and angry in her heart, this person changed his face so quickly, there was no transition at all.

But Zhang Qi's sister was still a guest in her room, so she didn't stay in the living room too much, and led Bailu down after meeting the two elders.

"I was also impatient to fight for the patriarch of Laozi," Zhang Hanlin began to talk about business with Zhang Zhe and Zhang Tai, "but now that Erlang's reputation has risen, it may be said that he has become a scholar in just a few years. The country is thirsty for talented people, but there are three generations of pilots, and the exempt land accumulated by the three generations will be exempted for another 20 years!"

"This is eighty acres of land. After 20 years of exemption, which one can I let take advantage of?" The old man then narrowed his eyes. I made up my mind on Brother Zhe's paddy field! I really think my team is dead."

Zhang Zhe was surprised.

"I don't know how uncle knew about this?"

The old man pointed at Zhang Qidao proudly: "Brother Qi is studying in the school of Master Yan in the county. Master Li from the Japanese county brought some disciples to visit Master Yan. Brother Qi happened to be in charge of receiving Master Li's private school. Among the students in the middle school, there is actually a boy from the Huang family in this village, who explained clearly what that branch did on your wedding day. It just so happens that the old guy has suffered retribution. I will come back and fight with his family. Let's fight to let them know how powerful I am."

At this time, Zhang Xiukan finally found a chance to interject.

"Uncle, just now in the ancestral hall, there are [-] acres of sacrificial land, and it would be too much effort for my family to plant [-] acres. Why don't we return the [-] acres and continue to plant with brother Shan's family. It's all..."

"Bah!" The old man pointed at Zhang Tai and scolded, "Your son just threw a piece of soil into his field, and he forced you to help his family plow the land for three days! Is it brother? And this, you dare to go back and talk to your son, Mrs. Lin!"

Thinking of his wife's aggressiveness, Zhang Tai shrank his neck and stopped talking.

After chatting for a while, my uncle Zhang Xu talked about his business experience.

It was at this time that Zhang Zhe knew that his uncle's family had opened a small bookstore in the county town, and that the uncle and aunt usually took care of the business.

"Hey, it's really difficult to do business nowadays!" Zhang Xu couldn't help pouring out his bitterness while talking, "Those printing workshops bully my small shop, and they won't issue books without cash. If the book goes on business , and threw it all into his own hands."

Zhang Hanlin scolded him again after hearing this.

"How many times have I told you that if you want to read, you can buy some idle books with good writing, and what kind of essays are you? Which scholar would not copy a copy of that stuff at home? There are still more than half of the products that have been advanced in the past year. Move. If you are missing Brother Qi's Meng Jin, I need you to look good!"

"Father, shopkeeper Zhao and my family have been friends for many years, and only his family is willing to sell books to us on credit. Their family has printed a lot of those three books, and I don't know how much they lost. I couldn't bear it for a while, so I helped one time."

Zhang Zhe was secretly joking that his uncle might kneel again, but suddenly a thought flashed through his mind.

In other words, he is also short of money now. For example, he wants to expand the house, but now he does not have enough money.As for the things he brought from modern times, even if he was killed, he would not release any of them.

So, books?

Here Zhang Xucheng was about to kneel down to apologize to his father in fear, but Zhang Zhe stood up and stopped him.

"Uncle, do you know someone from Yinfang?"

"Erlang, don't stop me, let me kowtow to my father first."

The old man blushed from his son's anger.

"Kneel down, don't talk to Erlang, how are you doing with the shopkeeper Zhao?"

Then Zhang Xu asked Zhang Zhe strangely: "Erlang is short of books? Just come to my house and get them. What is the study for?"

"Uncle, how much does it cost to print a book now?"

When it comes to matters in the industry, Zhang Xu's reaction is much faster.

"Difficult. First of all, the cost of making molds is horribly high. It is impossible to print without thousands of copies. Even if you press fifty sheets per copy, the cost will be [-] yuan. If there is no [-] yuan, I am afraid that the shopkeeper Zhao will give it to uncle. For the sake of face, I dare not open the seal."

Zhang Zhe thought about the printing quality of Meng Xiaowan's collection of books, and he understood a little bit.I am afraid that these Liushihang still make very rough printing plates, ink, and paper.

"My nephew wrote a storybook by himself. The first ten chapters will take about a hundred pages. The engraving, printing ink, and paper must be excellent. I don't know if a book of one hundred characters is enough?"

Zhang Xu shook his head and persuaded him: "One hundred Wen is not enough, the engraving must have spare money, otherwise the engraver will lose his fortune if he makes a mistake. Only a few of the books you mentioned are circulated, and the cost of each copy may not be four hundred! "

"Four hundred articles, one thousand copies, that's 400 taels of silver!" Zhang Zhe estimated in his heart, he still has four taels of private house on hand, which has already been handed over to Huo Bingcheng to take to the county to make a bet, and he can get ten taels of silver at most. two.

This way seems to be a bit unreasonable.

(End of this chapter)