An hour later, Shen Ruolan came out of the drunken flower shade with ease and joy, with a heavy silver ingot in her arms.
Hehehe, now that she is rich, she can buy and buy as much as she wants, and she doesn't have to worry about money in the future.
Just now she has made an appointment with Miss Hong Mian, and she will come every ten days from now on to teach Hong Mian a new song. She memorized each of the songs sung by Lian Xiaoniao, enough to teach her for a while.
No need to worry about material life anymore, she began to think about spiritual life.
When she was in Zuihuayin just now, she saw the manuscripts of poems pasted on the wall, but she didn't recognize more than half of the characters, and some of the few characters she knew were guessed.
As a modern woman, she can't stand her current status of being illiterate. Even if she doesn't mean to become a literary giant, she must at least be able to write and read. She can't be blind, right
So, after walking around the street, she found a bookstore selling books, pens and ink.
The shop is quite big, and the decoration is also elegant, but there are not many stocks in it. She looked at the few books on the shelves, and couldn't help frowning, and asked: "I want to buy some books for young children. Have it?"
She was embarrassed to say that she wanted to use it, so she had to excuse that she bought it for a child.
"Yes, yes, the girl comes with me."
As soon as the shopkeeper saw the customer, he greeted her courteously, led her to a large bookshelf, pointed to the two rows above, and said: "These two rows are simple poems. From the Three Character Classic, Hundred Family Names Beginning with Thousand-Character Essays, beginners will buy this. After that, it will be poetry books. Girls, see which poet you want to buy, and choose by yourself.”
Shen Ruolan looked at those books, her brows furrowed even tighter.
The bookstore looked quite big, but there were very few books, and a few were obviously old, so he asked, "Why are there so few books? Is there anything else?"
When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately called out to Zhuang Tianqu: "Girl said I have few books here? That's not a problem. My bookstore is the largest in Nong'an County, with four to five hundred books alone. Son."
Four or five hundred books is the largest bookstore
Shen Ruolan was really drunk.
However, when she took the books off the shelf and looked through them, she knew why there were so few of them.
Some of these books are printed, and some are hand-copied. In this era, there is no movable type printing. If you want to print a book, you have to engrave the whole page. It is very time-consuming and troublesome. If a page is damaged One word costs the entire page. Therefore, the cost of printing books is very high, and the books that can be printed are also carefully selected. Some books that are not easy to sell, such as talking books, miscellaneous books, etc., are mostly copied from each other.
However, the copied books are not cheap, not to mention the precious pen and ink, and the hard work of the copyists is also a lot.
Therefore, the cost of books is very high, and ordinary small shops can't afford too many goods. If you can store four or five hundred books at once like this bookstore, it is really a big deal. No wonder the shopkeeper is so confident, saying that his own The bookstore is the biggest.
Knowing this, she stopped being picky, searched carefully on the bookshelves, and bought a book of thousand characters, a book of hundred surnames, a book of three characters, and a book of rules for disciples. He asked again: "I still want to buy the Four Treasures of the Study. The shopkeeper can recommend it to me."
The shopkeeper said: "Papers and pens are divided into three categories: upper, middle and lower. Miss, see which one you want to choose, so I can pick it out for you."
Shen Ruolan didn't know how to distinguish the price from the quality, but although she had some money now, after all, her family was too small, and there were still a lot of things to buy, so she said, "Let me have a look at the middle price."
The shopkeeper agreed, and brought rice paper and brushes.
Shen Ruolan first took the brush and looked at it. There are Yanghao, Langhao, and Jianhao. There are seven or eight brushes divided into three types. Of course, the smallest ones are small letters and small seals. The kind of characters that are too big to write couplets.
She looked at the tip of the brush and picked the smallest one.
She bought rice paper for eight cents a knife, which is not the most expensive, but it is not cheap either. This kind of paper does not smudge, has a good hand feel, and has many uses. It is good for writing large characters or writing a small diary when you are free.
Mo bought a pair of upper-middle-grade fragrant ink. She has a slight cleanliness habit and can't stand the smell of inferior ink. Although fragrant ink is more expensive, it won't stink when writing, and it can also be maintained when studying. happy heart.
She chose a second-hand inkstone. It was a duan inkstone with a corner knocked off, and there were eyes on it. If it wasn't for a corner missing, it would have cost more than twice as much.
The four books plus the four treasures of the study cost her a total of one, two or three renminbi.
When paying the money, Shen Ruolan couldn't help complaining in heartache, it's so expensive, reading is indeed something rich people can afford!
Seeing that Shen Ruolan bought so many things, the shopkeeper gave her a schoolbag for free. The schoolbag is made of blue canvas. It is simple and elegant, durable and practical. It is hung on the body and matches her pink clothes quite well. Woolen cloth!
She happily left the bookstore with her schoolbag on her shoulders, and turned to a medical center.
From the day she came into this world, she has always wanted to find a good doctor to take her pulse and see if there is anything that needs to be adjusted in her small body.
She has become so thin, and she couldn't eat enough food all year round, she was afraid that she would ruin her body, but she didn't know it. Now that she has money, she should find a better doctor to take a closer look. If there is a problem, it will be treated as soon as possible, and if there is no problem, it will be even better!
When she found the medical clinic, she went to the most expensive doctor in the medical clinic for a pulse check. The old doctor had a great reputation and a high consultation fee. The consultation fee was only two renminbi, but for the sake of her health, Shen Ruolan gritted her teeth and spent the money.
The old doctor checked her pulse for a while, and asked her a few more questions. In the end, he prescribed five medicines for recuperating her body, saying that she had no serious problems, but that she was short of energy and blood, and needed to be recuperated.
These medicines are tonics, and she doesn't know most of the medicinal materials in them. She only knows the ginseng among them, which is the kind of small ginseng that has been cut into slices and dried. It is said that it has the effect of strengthening the body, but I don't know if it works or not.
These few medicines plus a casserole for decocting medicine, consultation fees, etc. cost her another tael of silver.
After paying, she walked out with a few packs of medicine and casserole. After walking less than 500 meters, she stopped, with a weird smile on her lips. I folded it back again, went to the counter and bought a pack of hallucinogenic drugs, threw it into the casserole and walked away.
This time, she walked very fast and stopped until she entered a dead-end alley.
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