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Chapter 77

July [-]th, Zhongyuan Day.

The sun was shining brightly on the streets, but the number of people was four or five points less than before.

On this day, many shops simply closed their doors due to taboo, and the owners went home to burn paper one after another.

Zhang Xu didn't want to open the door either, but there were still people standing all over the place outside the bookstore, all of them were waiting for "The Legend of Journey to the West".

When Zhang Zhe's set of books first arrived at Dexiang Bookstore, he only sold four or five copies a day. After all, this book is too expensive.But after reading the Yuelou Wenhui on December [-], Lin Funiang's best friend sent someone to buy a copy almost immediately, and sold nearly [-] copies half an hour before closing on July [-].

On the thirteenth, a bunch of stewards from the four halls and eight workshops came, and all the remaining sixty books were wrapped up.

Yesterday, Zhang Sanqi used a donkey to transport 150 yuan. Zhang Xu thought he could handle it for a few days.But within half a day, people from various houses and prefectures came to take away more than 40 copies.

At noon, Zhang Xu almost didn't finish his meal, and buyers from Nanxinglou and Duyuelou's restaurants and teahouses flocked here.Each store started with two books, and Tegent had to put up a "sold out" sign before the end of the hour.

A few guys who didn't buy the book and were too lazy to leave chatted for a while at the door of the store. Zhang Xu found out that after the Japanese language meeting, Huo Yanei ordered a well-known mouth-player in Nanxing Building and said "Journey to the West". ", Nanxing Building has been talking about this for the past two days, and the audience gathers.

But today, Huo Yanei asked someone to take back the notebook lent to Nanxinglou.It was only through the mouths of Huo Yanei's family members that the "spies" in Nanxinglou and other places learned of Dexiang's location.

Zhang Xu worked hard for his business, he got on the boat and went back to Taowan at the end of yesterday, he brought back sixty books overnight, and told him to deliver them again at noon on March [-]th.

Today, July 360th, the door was opened later as usual, but someone knocked on the door early in the morning.The person who came was the head monk of "Liu Ru Temple", the largest temple outside the county, and he asked for a copy of [-] copies and collected all [-] copies.Before he left, the monk still left his fixed silver, and he still needed [-] orders and five copies, making up [-] and five copies, which he said would be sent to various mountain gates in the province to pay respect to the Buddha.

The guys who didn't get the book yesterday didn't see the book today, so where are they willing to do it?

Zhang Xu knew these people, they were all bosses or assistants of bookstores in various counties, and each of them wanted five to ten books.

Today, there are two books and six books in the gap.

When the time was about to pass, Zhang Xu was turning the mill in the shop when he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door at the back door, but the sound was Sanqi.

Overjoyed, Zhang Xu pulled his wife to open the back door together, and a huge donkey head squeezed in.The donkey was sweating and wanted to go to the well before unloading its load.

Zhang Xu's wife hurriedly pulled the reins, and Sanqi and Zhang Xu unloaded the big bags on both sides of the donkey's back.The donkey let out a cheery cry all at once, and followed Zhang Xu's wife to the well.

Sanqi wiped off his sweat, and said with a smile: "Uncle, it's not too late, there are two hundred copies! This stupid donkey is exhausted."

"Not too late?" Zhang Xu rolled his eyes while unpacking the book, "Go to my shop and have a look first, these people are still short of six books!"

Sanqi didn't believe it, so he went to the front and showed his head at the door, and someone grabbed him immediately: "Why haven't the books come yet? Boss Zhang!"

The two hundred books were divided up by these people before they were finished.

Zhang Xu and Sanqi were counting the money in sweat.

"Regular customers get a copy of 540 coins, and travelers get [-] coins. Remember to report Sanqi to Erlang."

Before Sanqi had time to speak, he saw a person walk in through the curtain, and hugged Zhang Xu.

"Brother Si Yan, you and I are friends, and you don't sell me such a good book!?"

Zhang Xu turned his head and saw that this was a big book seller in this province.

"When did Boss Zheng come to Wuling? I didn't hear the wind."

The man was followed by a few panting companions, he shook his clothes: "Old Zhang is good, I just got off the boat, and I haven't finished the welcome banquet, I couldn't resist coming after listening to this book twice. Needless to say, I know that you are a regular customer here who buys a copy of [-] coins, and you have to deduct [-]% from the usual practice. I don’t want you to reduce it, just [-] coins. Begging. What do you think?"

Zhang Xu sighed: "To tell the truth, Boss Zheng, the book my nephew transcribed on behalf of me now has more than 400 volumes left. I still have 390 volumes left in this store, and the remaining [-] volumes, do you want them all?"

"Hey, why did you print these?" Boss Zheng stared at Zhang Xu's face suspiciously, "Three or four hundred copies, I want a thousand copies too! But old Zhang, we real people don't tell lies, Is that really all that's left?"

"Why am I coaxing you? A total of a thousand copies were printed. It's not that I don't want to print more, my nephew also said that the materials for this engraving are extremely rare, and they were all broken after printing. These are already orphan copies!"

Boss Zheng sneered: "A rare copy of a thousand copies? I don't believe you, let me walk around your store with you, okay?"

Zhang Xu smiled bitterly: "You can do whatever you want."

Boss Zheng clapped his hands and said, "Okay, please spare me another fifty books! How about 440 books? Old Zhang, with such a small amount of books, Nanyang is not enough to eat. You must not let me, Old Zheng, be too weak. "

Zhang Xu was about to nod his head in agreement, but he heard someone outside the shop panting and shouting: "Wait a minute! I'll give you [-] Wen!"

Boss Zheng's expression changed when he turned his head.The person who came was his enemy, the shopkeeper of Hu's Bookstore.

"Shopkeeper Hu, first come, first served!"

Shopkeeper Hu leaned on the door with one hand, took a breath carefully, and cupped his hands with a smile.

"Boss Zheng has a lot of lords, and besides, he hasn't said anything to agree to Si Yan. 440 copies, [-] articles, my Hu family is very optimistic about this book. Boss Zheng forgive me, haha, forgive me."

Zhang Xu shook his head: "Shopkeeper Hu, Zhang doesn't dare to break the rules. It's really Boss Zheng who said it first, and he offended you. Don't blame him!"

Seeing Shopkeeper Hu's face full of disappointment, Boss Zheng was elated.

"Hehe, it's useless to be tired. Shopkeeper Hu is so old and easy to run."

Shopkeeper Hu left in disappointment, and Boss Zheng sent two companions as a boat to Taowan to bring the rest of the books.I left fifty books for Zhang Xu's store, and the rest of the books went directly to Nanyang without even disembarking the boat.

Here, Zhang Xu and Sanqi counted the money given by Boss Zheng, only to find out that Boss Zheng actually gave it at the price of seven hundred coins.

"This man, he promised [-] Wen, but gave [-] Wen! No wonder he ran so fast."

Boss Zheng at the bow of the boat glanced triumphantly at Wuling behind him, and spoke to his confidant in a low voice.

"Only a hundred copies of these books were transported to Nanyang, and the rest were carefully found in a library and hidden away. After a few years, you can see how much this first edition of "Journey to the West" is worth! "

[There is another chapter, which will be completed around tomorrow morning]

(End of this chapter)