Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 74

Dexiang Bookstore, several scholars passed by here. After walking more than ten steps, a scholar suddenly stopped and reached out to grab two companions.

"Look at this notice, both of you. Is it the same as the notice in Chengyan Bookstore a few days ago?"

The two companions looked along the man's fingers, but they saw a black wooden sign at the entrance of Dexiang Bookstore, with the words "Zhang Xinzhi Dailu, Journey to the West and Shieru Biography" written in white gouache.

"Interesting, this Dexiang is a bit smaller, not comparable to the scale of Chengyan Bookstore, so the face is thinner than Chengyan. It's like Chengyan's "Masterpiece of Zhang Xinzhi" bluffing people, you only know it when you buy it." Zhang Xin', 'The Great Work'. Isn't this "Journey to the West Biography of Shi'er" also the work of that Yanmen Zhang Xin?"

"Hehe," one person sneered, "a person like a pig and dog was called Zhang Zhao before, but now he changed his name to Zhang Xin in order to bluff people. He sells everything with the word 'zig', which is really harmful! Brother Zhitian smashed it." All bookstores and bookstores have also received news of the signboard of honesty, I don’t think there is still a fish that slipped through the net in this corner!”

"Smash him!"

The three scholars stepped forward and were about to tear down the black board, but saw the bookstore owner come out in a hurry.Next to the black board was another sign.

The newly placed sign is not big, with four lines of words on it, which looks like a poem from a distance.

The three of them took a closer look, laughing and annoyed.

"Zhang Zhe, the first of the Taolin case, is the only one that is authentic. The daily sale is limited to a hundred volumes, and six hundred volumes are available for Shenghui."

One person laughed at himself: "I should slap my mouth. Fang said that this bookstore is thinner than Chengyan Bookstore, but he didn't realize that it was a little monster. He just typed out the full name of that letter, and this is the only authentic bookstore!" Exasperating, exasperating!"

The other person didn't know whether to laugh or be angry, and pointed at the price and scolded: "Six hundred yuan a copy, you can buy five or six copies of ordinary books. That Zhang Zhao dared to sell a copy only after using Zhang Xinzhi's three characters." A book of one hundred articles, six hundred articles? There is also a limit of one hundred volumes for sale, today I really saw what it means to be honest and shameless!"

The three of them clamored together, but the bookstore owner didn't get angry at all, he just smiled and opened a wooden box next to the sign, and carefully took out a book.

As soon as the book was held in their hands, the scholars stopped in dumbfounded.

On the slightly reflective blue cover page, countless blue cutouts cover the writing, enclosing five extremely handsome characters, "Journey to the West: The Legend of Shi E".This book is as big as two ordinary books, one foot long and nearly one inch thick.The pages of the book, which were as white as snow, were turned by the boss, causing a wave of snow in the air.

Faintly saw countless illustrations and elegant words hidden in the book, a faint scent of paper and ink lingered in front of my nose.

The boss smiled slightly, turned to the first page again, and opened it to the three of them.

On the snow-like paper, four lines of Zhang Xinzhi's unique and handsome font meandered into the eyes.

"The chaos has not been divided into the heaven and the earth, and the vastness is indistinct. No one sees it. Since Pangu broke the majesty, he has opened up the distinction between the clear and the turbid. Overwhelming all living beings, upholding the utmost benevolence, and inventing all things are good. .-Recorded by Taolin Zhang Xinzhi."

The leading scholar hastily stretched out his hand, seeing that the boss was about to hand it over, but withdrew his hand and wiped it on his sleeve before taking it with both hands.

"Brother Liu, this character does not seem to be written or printed, but it seems to have grown on this paper!"

"You two, let's do it slowly, let someone read it first! What kind of paper is this paper, which has never been heard of by someone who has been studying for sixteen years?"

Before this brother Liu opened the first page, he was snatched away by the anxious people around him, so he didn't care about "slowly start"!
I just started this book, and when I opened the next page of Zhang Zhe's inscription, there was a pattern, with mountains and rivers overlapping, and four people walking towards the sunset faintly.

The painting is printed on it, but there is no trace at all, it is extremely clean.

He gave a compliment: "What a solid material, what an exquisite page painting, just look at this paper, this ink, this painting, let's not talk about [-] Wen, but [-] Wen is worth it!"

The owner of the bookstore shook his fan slightly and didn't speak. He just stared at the three people's clothes, but he was weighing in his heart whether the three people were willing to buy the book.

This boss is Zhang Zhe's cousin Zhang Xu. The first volume of "Journey to the West: The Legend of Shi'er" was sold by Zhang Zhe in the bookstore yesterday.Every book is very heavy, Zhang's donkey only transported two hundred books.

This version of "Journey to the West" was revised by Zhang Zhe himself, and then he found someone to print a thousand copies on Pinxixi. The unit price of each copy was as high as 23 yuan, and the deposit was almost exhausted.

Before Zhang Xu opened the box yesterday, he also complained for a while. Sanqi, who sent the books for Zhang Zhe, told him that a book would sell for [-] Wen!He almost told Sanqi to turn around and leave.

If his father hadn't pointed at him and cursed, he would have almost missed this good book!
The first volume of Zhang Zhe's "Journey to the West: The Legend of Shi'er" has only ten chapters, and each character is printed in standard willow script, and each character is half a centimeter in size.

The paper, printing ink, illustrations, and cover pages are all exquisite to the extreme. Zhang Xu has sold books all his life, and he found that even the special manuscripts sent to the temple for offering to the Buddha are not so exquisite.

Don't talk about the stories inside, just print a book of this level, and the cost of such ingenious engraving is simply unbearable at a cost of [-] Wen.This kind of book with no flaws, he only heard people say that the books of Yucheng were made in this way.It was there that every page was cleaned and selected for every book printed, and the cost of one book was worth the cost of printing a hundred copies outside.

He held a book for half the night and read it for half the night, and almost missed the time to open the door this morning.

While eating and walking, the image of that monkey is always in my mind.

Needless to say he, even his son Zhang Qi, has never been late for school for several years, but when he left this morning, he ran away with dark circles.

The three scholars watched half of the first time, just as they saw the monkeys discovering the "Water Curtain Cave", Wu Mouen's lines came out, "A white rainbow rises, Qianxun Xuelang flies; the sea breeze blows continuously, The river is still shining in the moonlight. The air-conditioning divides the green peaks, and the remaining stream moistens the green microbes; the gurgling waterfall is really like hanging a curtain." The three scholars looked cool all over, as if they followed a group of monkeys to the water curtain cave.

Later, the Monkey King went out to sea and was accepted by the patriarch and named him Wukong.The three of them cheered and were about to open the second page when they saw a folding fan sticking out abruptly and blocking the page.

A few people raised their heads angrily, but saw the owner of the bookstore chanting with a smile: "Everyone, this shop is small, so I have to let you take a look at it once. If you like this volume, why don't you buy it?"

The three of them were startled, looking at each other a bit embarrassed.

None of them belonged to a wealthy family, and a book of [-] words was a bit out of order for them.If it's an anthology examination paper, don't say six hundred essays, even if you buy it by hanging it, you can talk to your family.But spending [-] Wen to buy a chapter book, the family is still turned upside down.

Brother Liu hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth: "You two, I love this book very much. But six hundred wen is too huge, and it can only be used for private use. If the two of you are like me, why don't you publish two hundred wen each? How about passing it on one after another?"

The other two nodded, and each counted two hundred pieces of silver, but they had to draw lots to judge who would see it first.

【A chapter owed yesterday】

(End of this chapter)