A woman went into the city to sell her donkeys and goats. The goat has a small bell tied around its neck. Three thieves saw it, and one of them said, "I will steal the sheep so that the woman cannot find her."
Another thief said, "I will steal the donkey from the woman."
The third thief said, "It's not difficult. I can steal all the clothes on the woman's body."
The first thief quietly approached the goat at a bend in the road, took off the bell, tied it to the donkey's tail, and then took the goat away. The woman looked around and realized that the goat was missing, so she started looking for it.
Then the second thief came up to the woman and asked her what she was looking for. The woman said she had lost a goat. The thief said: "I saw your goat. Just now a man led a goat into the woods. I can still catch him now."
The woman begged the thief to help him lead the donkey while she chased the goat. The second thief took the opportunity and took the donkey away.
When the woman came back from the woods, she saw that the donkey was gone, so she walked on the road crying. As she walked, she saw a man sitting by the pond, also crying. The woman asked him what happened.
The man said: "I was asked to deliver a bag of gold to the city. I was really tired. I sat down by the pond to rest and fell asleep. In my sleep, I pushed the bag into the water."
The woman asked him why he didn't go down and fish out the bag.
The man said: "I am afraid of water because I can't swim. If anyone wants to fish out this bag of gold, I will give him twenty ingots of gold."
The woman was overjoyed and thought: "It is because others stole my goat and donkey that God gave me happiness."
So she took off her clothes and dived into the water, but she couldn't find the pocket of gold anyway. When she climbed out of the water, she found her clothes missing. It turned out that the third thief had stolen her clothes.
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In the back hall of the workshop, Li Zexuan looked at the second news article written by Xiao Yu'er and fell into deep thought for a moment.
There is no doubt that this news is a complete headline-making, and the content is completely different from what you thought when you first saw the headline.
But behind this news, there is actually a hint of philosophy. In this way, the quality of the entire news immediately rises to a higher level. This Li Yu's understanding is not low!
"Xiao Yu'er, who did you hear this story from?"
After a moment of silence, Li Zexuan raised his head and asked.
Li Yu replied: "This is what an aunt in our workshop told me yesterday about what happened to a woman from her natal family. I thought that if I wrote this down, everyone would understand a lot of things after reading it. For example, , Greed will always be punished, don’t trust people easily, trusting others easily will eventually pay the price, etc.”
"Well, that's good. You've really put the news in a new way!"
Li Zexuan nodded and expressed appreciation.
The purpose of his previous launch of the newspaper was just to entertain the public, attract investment, and make some money. Unexpectedly, Li Yu actually made an analogy and triggered another function of the newspaper, which is to educate the people, and he did it in a very lively and interesting way. It's really rare to educate the public. This girl's thinking is always very special and creative!
"Hehe, thank you boss for the compliment. So boss, have I passed the test? Can I be a reporter for Datang Daily in the future?"
When Li Yu heard Li Zexuan's compliment, he immediately smiled and said.
"Well, you've passed the test here, Brother Ma, what do you think?"
Li Zexuan turned to look at Ma Zhou and asked.
"Mou Ma thinks it's acceptable. These two pieces of news have captured Sir Alex Ferguson's essence. Xiao Yu'er is indeed qualified to enter the editorial department of Datang Daily."
Ma Zhou nodded and smiled.
"Well, well, Xiao Yu'er, you can work under Manager Ma from now on. Your salary will be calculated as I told you before. The more you work, the more you will get!"
Li Zexuan heard that Ma Zhou also agreed, so he said to Li Yu.
"Oh~! Thank you, sir, thank you, Uncle Ma!"
Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief and cheered.
Ma Zhou couldn't help but darken his face, and instantly felt like he was dozens of years older.
"Xiao Yu'er, you still owed me five guan of money before, but you have to work hard to pay off your debt~!"
Li Zexuan deliberately joked that he didn't care about the money, he just said this just to tease the little girl.
"Humph, I know~!"
Li Yu curled his lips and said dissatisfied.
"Hahaha!"
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"Brother Ma, how is the progress of the dictionary compilation recently?"
After teasing with Li Yu for a while, Li Zexuan left the pavilion, followed Ma Zhou to the house, and asked.
"Back to Sir, the compilation of the dictionary is nearly halfway done, and it is expected to be completed in more than half a month!"
Ma Zhou replied confidently.
"Eh~? So fast?"
Li Zexuan let out a surprised "Eh". When he thought about it, the project volume of a dictionary had never been so huge. I'm afraid it wouldn't be possible to compile it in less than a year or two, right? Never thought it would be so soon!
"Well, it is true, because in the compilation of the dictionary, the Crown Prince and the King of Wei have given great human and material support. Moreover, the dictionary we compiled this time is mainly based on "Shuowen Jiezi" and introduced pinyin. , and improve the definitions of some words. In fact, the workload itself is not large, which is why the progress is so fast."
Ma Zhou explained with a smile.
"Oh~~, that's it!"
Li Zexuan nodded thoughtfully, and after a moment he asked: "Brother Ma, how is Qiqi Culture doing lately? How many books can you supply there every day?"
Ma Zhou is now one of the top executives of Qiqi Culture. Of course he knows these things very well. Hearing this, he replied without thinking:
"Recently, the printing department has recruited a lot of new people, and its scale has expanded a lot. Now we can provide about two thousand books to Qiqi Culture every day, and the types and quantities of books will continue to expand. Now Qiqi Culture In front of the cultural gate, there is no longer the situation where thousands of people rushed to grab books together when it first opened, and there are more and more people who believe that Sir Alex said that "books are as cheap as onions". It was prophesied.”
Li Zexuan nodded happily and said: "Well, that's good! But~~but the scale of Fantastic Culture is getting bigger and bigger now. What are the reactions of other bookstores in Chang'an City? Are there any extraordinary actions?"
"This~~~"
Ma Zhou frowned slightly when he heard this. He said with a serious expression: "In recent days, with the increase in the number and types of interesting cultural books, it has become increasingly difficult for other bookstores to do business. Some bookstores will send people to the workshop to work with them. They also wanted to buy a batch of cheap books from the workshop and sell them. This Ma did not dare to agree privately. He was planning to wait for Sir Alex to come before making the decision himself! Of course, there are a large number of bookstores to choose from. They can carry it to death, but they always have a lot of tricks behind their backs. Pang Sige has recently arrested a lot of people with unknown intentions around Fantastic Culture..."
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