After returning from Commander Wang, Cui Xie was thinking about how to send a letter to Xie Qianhu.
Although Xie Qianhu knew that he was the owner of Zhirong Bookstore, he also knew that Xie Qianhu knew, but when Xie Shan came to Qian'an, he specially changed his clothes, concealed his name, and pretended to be a rich man from another place. . This is obviously because he doesn't want to let him know his identity, let alone let him know the identity of the owner, so he can be clever, run to the door and say to others: "I know you care about me, I donated the store, I am afraid you are worried, I came here to tell you. you say"
Not only can't tell the truth, he didn't have a reason to ask for leave to see Xie Qianhu, and he wanted to call Cui Yuan or the shopkeeper Ji, and his identity was not enough.
The official position of Qianhu of Jinyiwei is only five rank, so it is on the same level as Cui Langzhong, but can Cui Langzhong easily step into the gate of Jinyiwei's house with a post
Stop dreaming!
Cui Langzhong can't, and his son-in-law can't do it. Otherwise, no matter how he wanted to give a gift last year, he would have to let the son of Wang Dagong take it on his behalf. It's really these people from his family, it is estimated that even the door of Xie's house can't be knocked on.
Besides, he couldn't be sure whether Xie Qianhu bought his slow-selling book because he liked him a little, or simply wanted to help the poor. If this were left in modern times, a student who received donations would be able to get in touch with the leaders who donated to the school by making a phone call; these days, he could only sit at home and think about it, and he couldn't find the post office even if he sent a letter!
The express shop only sends official documents from the imperial court!
But human nature is like this, the more difficult it is to do, the more I think about it. Cui Xie, a poor boy in the countryside, thought about it, but couldn't find the leader Xie who donated money to his education, so he had to ask Uncle Yuan to contact Xie Shan, the nanny of the Xie family. As long as Xie Shan knows, Xie Qianhu will know, and there is no need to think about him - if this is not his self-love.
Even if it is self-indulgent, there is no harm in sending it.
He made up his mind and wrote a letter to Xie Ying using plain paper with the simplest paper frame, in which he told him that he was going to open a new study. However, he never mentioned Rongshufang, as if there was only superficial communication between the two, Xie Qianhu had not checked him, and he did not know what Xie Shan had done.
After finishing the letter, he personally went to the studio to pack 20 sets of more than 100 books, a box of Three Kingdoms change-up notes, and asked people to prepare some fresh fruits and whole pieces of honey from the mountains. . In mid-September, the Sanli River was producing large crabs. He also asked someone to buy a basket of them, tied them with hemp ropes, and covered them with wet sackcloth and stuffed them into the basket layer by layer.
At this time, the weather in Jibei is not too hot, but crabs are not durable things. He asked people to find saltpeter and taught the young man how to make ice with saltpeter. First, he made a pot of crushed ice and sprinkled it into the basket to cool down. .
The food was presented to Xie Shan on the face of it. Cui Yuan escorted the car and brought a few guys all the way to Beijing. The rest was up to Xie Shan...
He didn't want to think too much, so he hired a cart to take Cui Yuan and the others out early the next morning, and then went back to the commanding mansion of Wang, and began to practice horseback riding and flower spear under the guidance of the pro-military.
… A very good exercise method. After holding the 10-pound flower gun, he could not feel that he was holding a pen when he wrote, and the writing was extraordinarily light and flying.
Mr. Lin said angrily: "The most important thing for candidates is their handwriting. A few years ago, there was a student in this county who was chosen by the county honorary because of the large, round and black pavilion. Handwriting is so important, if you hurt your hand But what to do!"
Cui Xie didn't want to make him angry, but he was more concerned about the sturdy figure of 1.8 meters in his previous life, so he had to coax him warmly: "Students practice martial arts because they are afraid that they will have to write seven essays a day in the examination room and their arms are not strong enough. It's just two months, I'll take a break after the New Year, I don't dare to make an accident before the exam."
It's not right to practice now! Mr. Lin looked at his slender wrist and imagined the way he was wielding a big gun that was more than ten feet long, and he felt breathless.
But this student is also stubborn. Otherwise, how could he change from a Meng Tong who has never even studied Mao Poetry to a primary school student who can write essays in just a few months? As long as he made up his mind, 80% of the time he would do it, and no one else could control him.
Mr. Lin has been reading Mencius intensively for many years, and he is also good at nourishing the arrogance in his chest. Knowing that he can't control him, he simply waved his hand: "You have to control yourself. I can't forgive you!"
Cui Xie seemed to be docile, but he said unrepentantly, "Don't worry, sir, I won't delay practicing calligraphy because of this."
However, because his arms were shaking so badly, he couldn't write well for a while, let alone draw pictures. When he got home, he simply started planning to renovate the library.
After dinner, he locked himself in the small study, locked the door from the inside, closed his eyes and opened the hard disk-documents-foreign language-English-library English, and with a strong will he could clearly see the structure and arrangement of the bookshelves inside. manner and arrangement of tables and chairs in the reading room.
He didn't know how much the floor could bear in the Ming Dynasty, so for safety's sake, he didn't choose the row of bookshelves that are common in modern libraries. Four rows of eight long tables are placed between the bookshelves, and each table has two benches, which can accommodate up to twenty people reading or copying.
The small courtyard behind the bookstore is also two-storey. The main courtyard has three main rooms and two wing rooms. According to the classification method of Sikushu, Jingshiziji each occupies two rooms, and the extra one can be used as a lounge. The three upside-down rooms in the small backyard are arranged as a copy room, and a bookcase is placed in the corner of the room, and there are pen, ink, paper and inkstones for the copyists to use. If the borrowed book is defaced or torn, the borrower should buy a copy or make up a copy.
The bookstore in front of it has a small second floor, and the upper floor is dry, so it is used to store wealthy books. The lobby downstairs that sells books has been changed to a registration office, where you can register your identity and go through the borrowing procedures. The inner rooms on both sides of the lobby are converted into staff lounges, furnished with sofas, coffee tables and desks. A small bookshelf the size of a side table is placed against the wall, and some entertainment books printed by him are placed. It is quiet and comfortable, and can also be used as a living room for reception. The leader who came to check above.
He also designed a small library card for the library, printed on light blue pine flower paper, with a small five-petaled white plum printed on it, and a fake color cloud body "Qian" printed on the bottom with two colors of red and green. Ann County Library Borrowing Card". To get a library card, you need a deposit of 20 taels of silver, and you are allowed to borrow one at a time; if there is no deposit, you can copy books for the library in exchange for the right to read, and you can borrow whichever copy you copy.
For the sake of anti-piracy, he finally asked people to complete the arching technique that he was not willing to take out.
The pigment of plum petals is mixed with muscovite powder, and it is printed with a layer of lustrous luster. The stamens, the outer frame of the petals and the outer frame of the font are all printed in a three-dimensional convex shape with two concave and convex plates. The paper-sized card is sandwiched in the translucent white oil paper, which is very delicate and can be used as a paper at any time. write.
It is guaranteed that ordinary people cannot imitate it at home, and those who can imitate it do not have to begrudge the deposit for the card.
The county magistrate Qi also highly appreciated his anti-theft technology. Holding the loan card, he said, "You have never printed such finely printed paper before. If such a plum blossom paper was published earlier, I am afraid that the palace will come to your bookstore. I bought it."
After all, it is not a good thing to ask those eunuchs to come and buy. There are too few workers in his store, and he really made a special supply for the palace, but he can't make much takeout. This is the rhythm of Qing waiting for bankruptcy.
Cui Xie listened with his eyes lowered, and when he finished speaking, he told him the borrowing rules that he remembered: for example, the name, age, and general appearance of the cardholder must be written on the back of each library card; Articles, use the seal to stamp the borrowing and returning time; damage and loss of books will be compensated...
The county magistrate of Qi has also researched the case of controlling borrowing books long ago, and even thought about using the library card to re-organize the yellow book to find out some hidden people. However, these are not things that can be done in a hurry in a few months. If he can be re-elected, he can try to do it after next year; Bar.
After thinking about it, he sighed and said, "You think it's good, the name of the library is also good, and we really don't count as a building. First, print a hundred or ten cards and call them the county student, Confucian boy, etc. Let's register. The county will call on rotating craftsmen to paint the outside of the library, and when the books donated by each family arrive, they will start borrowing books."
When Cui Xie went back, he arranged for craftsmen to print cards.
Because the arching technique has been unlocked, he simply asked the craftsmen to use this technique on the new Three Kingdoms character dress-up cards. Even Xu Chu engraved two sets of editions according to the law, creating a feeling of slightly bulging muscles.
But the breasts of the beauties are definitely not printed!
He is such a virtuous person!
He is here to renovate the library and prepare for the new bookstore step by step. He has a busy life, but Beijing has caused an uproar for his bookstore—
Zhirong Bookstore is closed!
The Zhirong Bookstore, famous for its Meiren Paper and Meiren Ji, has closed its doors!
It opened vigorously and fell silently. It was not until the bookstore really closed that the booksellers in Shuntian Prefecture and Tongzhou hurriedly spread the news to Beijing, and those customers who were looking forward to the publication of "Six Talents Criticizing the Three Kingdoms" did not know about it. For a while, many rich and powerful book fans wished they could kill Qian'an, tied Cui Meiren and forced her to reopen.
- It is best to drive in Beijing. Qian'an is far and remote, and there are many mountain roads, so it is inconvenient to buy books.
Fortunately, these bookstores also stocked the inventory left by Zhirong Bookstore before the store closed. Although the price has risen a lot, there are still books to read, and there are even two new volumes of "Three Kingdoms", which makes readers feel a little less anxious. Later, there were rumors that the color printing technology and all the engravings and atlases of the Three Kingdoms were bought by another bookstore, and that "Three Kingdoms" would be published as scheduled, and the mentality of ordinary customers was more stable.
Although a few merchants regretted their slow start and did not buy the bookstore technology, the situation was similar to when the Zhirong Bookstore family had the color printing technology in the first place. Anyway, the color printing technology allows the craftsmen to figure out a little bit slowly.
The painter can't rob it back to the mansion and lock it up, so as long as the painting is still there, it's not bad for them to make a lot of money.
The one who was really worried about the closure of Zhirong Bookstore was the one who didn't even buy a book there.
The steward of the Cui family's outer courtyard found out that the bookstore had collapsed, so he rushed to the backyard and told Mrs. Xu's confidant mother about the matter. She said with a smile on her face, thinking that Madam heard that Cui Xie's business was a run-off, and that she was unlucky since then, and Madam's heart would be relieved.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Xu's anger was even worse than before.
If this news had come a few months earlier, Zhirong Bookstore would not have been so popular, and Cui's house would not be short of money for the small shop in Qian'an, she would probably be happy that Cui Xie had returned to the point where he had nothing, but not now!
Now is the wrong time! The current Zhirong Bookstore is no longer the obscure bookstore in the small county town!
After the autumn exam, Cui Ju mentioned to her that next year's personnel department plan, his inspection comment will probably only be "normal", if he is not "competent", if he stays in Beijing, he will have no chance of promotion. Although Cui Ju is a family heirloom, he prides himself on being a noble family, but he always delays in the position of the fifth-ranking gentleman.
And if he wants to rise, his eunuch performance is still insufficient, and he must go the way of Wanshoufu or the Ministry. But these also have to have enough property to manage - his family's business in the capital and the fields in the countryside add up to only a thousand taels of silver every year. Over the years, I have to manage Shangguan, and I have to support a family. The savings in the house are only more than a thousand taels. It is not enough to find a good place for the prefect.
If Cui Xie's bookstore was still there, or if he gave it to Wan Shou's assistant, or asked him to send money to Beijing for a pen, they would be able to get a good seat for them, but he was taken away!
At this moment, Madam Xu hated Cui Xie's incompetence. But this boy who is incompetent to the outside world is extremely capable of his own family. She wants to reach out and manage him. When Cui Ju came back in the evening, she went straight to the outside study, said this, and asked him, "Your son who is very capable has lost the study, what should I do!"
Cui Ju's face was also extremely ugly, and he said with a sullen face, "What should I do? Am I going to file a lawsuit with someone for a shop, and then snatch it back? Where is the face of my fifth-grade lord!"
Madam Xu angrily said: "What matters is face or future? Others can exchange face for a censor, but you can't? If you are willing to give up that stinky face, don't mention being promoted to the first rank. In the future, with the support of Master Wan, there are also third-rank and second-rank! Someone else robbed our store, isn't that why? The master just watched others step on your head with our belongings?"
Cui Langzhong's face turned pale, and he said seriously: "The woman's opinion! What do you know! Don't say it, I can still find a job as an outsider, and I will spend a few years in Fuzhou, and I will also publish a few volumes of analysis classics. book, when everyone is old enough, they will naturally be able to return to the DPRK!”
Raise hope! Raise hope! Hope again!
Since she married into the Cui family, Cui Langzhong is not a man, but a pedestrian who needs her family's support. She has to support her when she sits in the position of the man. After so many years, she still can't be promoted to the court. , but also to seek foreign employment!
Her father couldn't get promoted, that's because his old man belonged to the Mingjing Department and was destined to have a limited future. But the husband she married was a second-class jinshi, and Wanshou was an assistant teacher. How could he be in the circle of lower officials, and he couldn't get promoted! She is a yellow-flowered girl married to a widower with a son, and the picture can be that he can support him for twenty years... Thirty years and fifty years, when she enters the coffin, can she get a first-class lady's letter from the court posthumously
Cui Ju shook his hand and left. Mrs. Xu watched him go away, only to feel that the back figure was so annoying - the helpless appearance that she didn't even dare to ask where her things were, reminded her of Cui Xie who was kicked out of the Cui Mansion that day... as expected The father and son are generally incompetent externally, and can only be rude to their family members.
But she is a housewife who is tied up, but as long as she is a man, she would have tidied up the house obediently, and the affairs of the court will be done properly!
She stood in the night wind for a long time, her clothes were freezing cold, and her heart was still hot. Cui Xie, this useless person, gave the property to others. Could she just watch the Cui family's things lost in vain
The stepson is disobedient and the husband is unreliable, so he can only go back to his parents' house and ask.
She stared at her and stayed up all night, and went back to her mother's house to talk about this unlucky thing. Her father was a low-ranking official, and he didn't know any fellow officials. It took a lot of effort to find a son-in-law who could help his daughter with 10,000 heads. When it came to taking back the shop, it was even more difficult to reach out.
He could only persuade: "Then Cui Xie is your husband's eldest son, and the bookstore is well-known in Beijing. If he is not a high-ranking person, or someone supports him, who would dare to take his shop? This is Cui Ju. It's also right not to do it yourself, even if you rashly file a lawsuit to get the things back, and you give it to Shangguan, how do you know it wasn't the person you sent it to take it away?"
Mrs. Xu told him to get more angry, and she fought back her tears and said, "Dad, you say, I am a wife of a fifth-rank official, am I the only thing left to be angry in this life? How can I survive being subjected to insiders and outsiders..."
This daughter was married very well, and her husband was promising and famous. Director Xu was especially fond of her. Seeing her weeping, he couldn't bear to say: "What can you do when you cry, I don't have the ability to replace her. You recaptured the bookstore. You might as well find out who bought the bookstore if you had time, whether it was given as a gift or something. What if it was also intended to be given to Shangguan? If your underage son buys your property by force, you have to take care of it."
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Mrs. Xu lowered her head and thought for a while, before making a low "um".
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Cui Yuan went to Beijing quickly and came back quickly. All the letters and books that should be sent were delivered, and he came back with a good box of Buddhist incense, saying that Xie Qianhu remembered that the next Yuan was coming, and it was time to give cold clothes to his ancestors. Some Buddha incense for him.
Cui Xie held the incense box and asked, "Xie Qianhu still believes in Buddhism?"
Cui Yuan smiled and said, "That's not it, not only believe in Buddhism, but also hang the Guanyin you gave him in the inner hall. I looked at it from a distance outside, and the painting was vivid and real. It looks like Guanyin descends to the earth, with incense candles offered below, which shows that he believes it very much. It's a pity that we didn't bring him a few rolls of printed diamond sutras when we entered the capital."
Fortunately, Xie Qianhu reminded Cui Xie that October 15th was also a day to sell Buddhist scriptures. He had been waiting for the new year to release the pile of stock left in the curry. It seems that he can sell it at this time, and put on the signboard of "traditional color printing, sincere and devout" to fill the closure of Zhirong Bookstore, and Ju'anzhai has not yet completed. The opening before the opening.
Cui Xie held the incense box in his hand, and his thoughts seemed to be clear. The common thoughts of making money in his heart only turned a little, and soon they were gathered back, and his eyes fell on the sandalwood box of the finely carved Buddha statue. I don't know if it was Buddhist incense or the smell of woodware incense faintly spread to his nose. He couldn't help but opened the box and took a sniff. He took out three sticks of incense and placed them in front of the imperial decree in the main hall.
The strong and quiet Buddha incense instantly filled the room. Standing in front of the table, he watched the incense ash burn a little bit whiter and fall into the same snow-white ash pile, and he also enjoyed the rare ethereal tranquility for a while. He didn't want to burn the rest so easily, so he put them in the box, and waited until the next Yuan Festival to go to the ancestral tomb to sweep sacrifices and burn paper clothes.