Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Chapter 96

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Ju Anzhai, the most conscientious imitator of Cui Meiren, has opened a branch in Beijing!

It's in the Cui's South Store where the owner burns old goods and donates to the elderly!

In the store, there are large full-length pictures of Xiao Qiao and Sun Shangxiang. The characters drawn are similar but not identical to the beautiful pictures in the original original "Six Talents Commenting on the Three Kingdoms". It can be seen that they are not the pictures in the original book, but I found a good painter who can really draw Cui Meiren's style!

Before Ju Anzhai was officially launched, the limelight had already attracted the capital, and even the Zhaifu in the Imperial Prison were discussing with relish what the body and posture of the two beauties were, how stunning and moving. The next day when it was officially opened, many supervisors heard from Zhaifu how many people were queuing outside the store, and the books were selling like water. Collect some money and buy a new set of Three Kingdoms.

When the teaching assistants left in the morning and left them to study by themselves, some of the supervisors were irritated and sighed, thinking of Xiao Qiao and Sun Shangxiang hanging on the wall of Ju Anzhai. The head of Zhai couldn't stand it any longer, and dangling in front of them with the lecture book, he said, "The book that you memorized when you signed at night was not enough, and the imitation book is not good enough, but you have to take it to the Shengxuan Hall for disposal. Get your homework out of the way."

The more anxious others were, the more calm Cui Xie became, he spread paper and researched ink, and wrote neatly in one stroke, like a printed Song edition book. Ning Zhai Chang pointed to his homework and taught others: "You are all not too young, and you are not as young as sixteen or seventeen years old, holding a hot pot."

A young supervisor in his twenties said with a smile: "Brother Cui Xian didn't hold a hot pot. I think his concentration is like holding a Mrs. Zhu, and his heart is calm and naturally cool."

Ning Ju laughed and scolded: "Then you hug me too, go to the numbered room and bring your Mrs. Zhu, I just think I can't see you going out."

Another prison student tried to stop him and said to the head of Ning Zhai: "The head of Zhai must not let him go out, this time he must go to see the beautiful pictures of Ju Anzhai!"

The young supervisor said with a bitter face: "Ju'anzhai's books are also very hard to buy, and they will be sold out a little later, and I don't know when new items will be available again. We are not allowed to buy more than one set per person, otherwise we will cooperate with each other. Hiring a recruiter to run errands is also suitable. You see, brother Cui Xian is so calm, he must have already told his family to help him line up. Those of us who are alone in Beijing have no servants to help us, so it will be too late when we leave school..."

As soon as he saw that Cui Xie was still writing with his head down, he pouted and asked him, "He Zhong, do you dare not read the illustrations in the Six Talents version of Three Kingdoms? Knowing that he has published a new book, he is really good at it. Not on fire?"

Of course not. Seeing how eager you are to buy it, I don't have to worry about sales at all.

The corners of Cui Xie's mouth were slightly raised, revealing a mysterious smile, and pressing his voice, he said, "I've already read the new book, it's really good. Cao Cao was feasting on the Tongquetai, and he was about to write a poem on the Tongquetai, so I heard Liu Bei. Jingzhou, accidentally dropped the pen, Tang Caizi commented that 'the city is full of wind and rain near Chongyang', which was hindered by the renters, now Cao Cao has not even a word, how tired."

"what!"

"How did you see the review of the new book! Didn't his family just put up pictures of beautiful women, and it's scheduled to go on sale today!"

Choi Xie smiled meaningfully. Ning Zhai took a long sip of the commented sentence and said: "'The city is full of wind and rain near Chongyang'. It was written by the old Chongyang festival in Popin, Huangzhou, but was interrupted by the landlord who came to collect the rent, so I just left it here. The allusions to the famous sentence, ridicule Cao Cao when he heard that Liu Bei had conquered Jingzhou, and his mind was flustered, and he couldn't even make a single sentence. Such a playful comment is indeed a genius of Tang!"

Another supervisor asked in surprise: "Brother Cui Xian has a book at home? Can you show it to us? Do you have any extra to give to us?"

When Cui Xie didn't see the instructor, he put down his pen, raised his chin slightly, and said indifferently, "I can get a few more books for Ju Anzhai's books if I want. I feel the same brother. When I donated Zhirong Bookstore to be a library, his family gathered craftsmen who had nowhere to go in the store, and bought the original store's book editions and Juanzhai, which opened the manuscript. When they wanted to make books , I also often help point one or two."

Forget it! This person had donated to the Zhirong study! That is the originator of the popular beauty pictures and beauty papers!

In Qian'an County's "Miscellaneous Notes of Duke Qi Zhiyuan", it was written that he donated his mother's dowry to teach the students in the county to read. When I read this travel note, how many people felt a pity for the study, thinking that he cooked the crane and burned the qin. Why didn't they expect that this Ju'anzhai was also from Qian'an, and he inherited the engravings of Zhirong Bookstore, so it must have something to do with him!

Even Chief Ning Zhai couldn't help but asked in a trembling voice, "Then, is that home Anzhai yours?"

Cui Xie shook his head: "Of course not, the owner of that shop is no longer from my family. When I returned to my hometown for the imperial examination, I was seriously injured on the way to death. The old servant and son who brought me home took good care of me and saved my life. I returned home. I paid back their deeds, and instructed them to make a living and earn money. Later, they always regarded me as flesh and blood. After the study was over, they kept in contact with my family. Any new book or new sketchbook should be published first. Ask me a question."

Really benevolent servant, rare...

A supervisor suddenly thought: "They just opened in that Cui's Nanhuo store, and that store is also surnamed Cui..."

Cui Xie said with a smile, "Yes. That shop lost too much money and could no longer operate. I thought it would be better to give it to my own people instead of passing it on to others. It just so happened that they also wanted to go further from Tongzhou and open a branch in Beijing. So I bought the shop. In the future, it will be convenient for me to help their staff to draw a new book."

Remove the word "Zan" from the staff member Zan's painting, that is, he is going to do the work for Ju Anzhai.

This bookstore is in Beijing, and Cui Qi lives with his family every day. Sooner or later, he will ask people to reveal the relationship between the two families. He simply warned him first, so as not to ask others to reveal it.

This bookstore publishes elegant literature books, and Three Kingdoms can be said to be published in response to the urgent demands of readers, and it has nothing to do with Cui Meiren. He also deliberately changed the painting style of the pictures in the new book, the coloring is lighter, the pattern on the clothes is drawn with nail head and mouse tail, the hook lines are more fine and powerful, and the martial arts practice makes the wrist stronger, and the pictures of the beauties in the past are already different. There is an intuitive difference.

As long as he was bitten to death and painted in an imitation of the current popular style, others would definitely not be able to regard him as Cui Meiren.

He smiled lightly, and bowed his hands to his classmates: "If you want new books, I will ask them to ask for a few copies, and you can take them to the numbered room to read them, everyone can read the new books, and you can save a fortune, why? Aren't they both beautiful?"

Everyone just heard him say that even the ancestral shop was sold, and they were embarrassed to take his books for nothing, and they all refused. They would rather collect the money themselves and just ask him to help carry a few books. Cui Xie politely said a few words, seeing that they really wanted to buy, he said: "Guoxue is not a place to do business, I will ask their buddies to bring a few books and wait at the door tomorrow, you can buy them from him after school at noon."

All the people were instantly in high spirits. Those who have money think about buying a few more sets, and those who don’t have money, just scrape together the money, and their hearts don’t panic, and their spirits don’t scatter.

The ethos of the new "Three Kingdoms" is not only in Chinese studies, but even people in the imperial court are not doing their jobs properly, and they take the books they rush to the public office to show off in broad daylight.

Sun Yingjue asked someone to snatch dozens of books against the door, and carried his father's box to the Zhenfu Division, and said arrogantly, "You guys are welcome, let's share the books! There are 'three qi' in this book. Zhou Yu's big picture, Zhou Lang vomited blood, and Xiao Qiao served next to him, it was tender like water... tsk tsk tsk, compared to the little Qiao hanging in the store, it's different."

Everyone was not very enthusiastic. Sun Shizi was quite strange. He bumped into someone with the book and asked, "Why don't you want such a good book? Didn't you all say that you want to grab it a few days ago? Or did someone from your family buy it? You have to go back at night to see it, it's not as good as what I'm seeing right now."

Several Zhenfu and Qianhu looked at him in confusion: "Last night Xie Qianhu sent books everywhere, but didn't they send them to the government?"

"What? He's already holding the new book?" Sun Yingjue was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth, and called Xie Ying angrily for a long while: "You grabbed the book last night? How did you grab it? His family was still there at the time. If the storytelling is not done well, I will not sell it in advance!"

Xie Ying smiled and said nothing.

Yao Fuyuan raised his eyebrows: "Why don't you think about the original name of the store? If you bought someone else's store, can you give the owner a few new books? The owner also made new clothes for Brother Xie, what is a book? "

Sun Yingjue spat: "Why can't I catch up with such a good thing, I can save such a person who is grateful and has knowledge..."

After complaining a few words, and remembering that the focus was not here, he tapped the book on the table and asked angrily, "You sent them all yesterday, why didn't you send me?"

Xie Ying curled the corners of her lips, showing a helpless smile: "Yesterday I was the first to send someone to the house, but didn't the prince go with someone to listen to Qu'er? I don't know why it wasn't in your hands."

Sun Yingjue was silent for a while, wiped his face, and said "hey": "I went back late last night, and my father didn't say a word to me, and it was a guilty conscience to cut off my book. Oh, who taught me to be a son? I can't be angry with Lao Tzu..."

Then he looked at Xie Ying again: "This book has to be given to someone else, but who else are you giving it to?"

Xie Ying said: "I'll send it to you soon, and some old parents are still waiting to send a few copies. I have to go to his store to buy a few sets at night, and then see what new products are available."

He sent people to buy everything that others should buy, but he didn't want to go. He rode to the east of the city by himself when he was free to see what the shop opened by Cui Xie's old servant was like. Who would have thought that the crowd would not disperse in the evening, and the people on the road were crowded to buy books or come back after shopping. On the way, many people were holding books and reading, chatting, and commenting on the comments and illustration.

There are also people who simply don't even read the book, just buy the new dress-up cards from their store, and walk on the street, praising this painting with the same conscience as Cui Meiren back then. By the way, I would like to sigh with emotion that the beauty left silently. The owner of the bookstore was so cruel that he didn't even leave the fragrant boudoir as a souvenir, so he donated it to the library.

Xie Ying, the well-informed, lowered her body behind her back, silently holding back her smile and moving forward. The closer he got to the bookstore, the more crowded he was, so he dismounted, grabbed the reins and walked forward, looking at the plaque called "Ju An Zhai", which was slightly reddish by the setting sun for a long time.

He had already walked outside the door, but Yingyingchaochuo saw two beauties standing side by side on the wall. The hall was crowded with people again, and the sound of books and money could be heard incessantly. Suddenly, he felt that there was no need to go in again.

He came here on a whim, and he naturally returned after he was exhausted. He turned around and walked towards a place with less traffic. Passing a hutong entrance on the side of the store, I glanced at some places with different colors, and glanced inside subconsciously—

A small white horse was quietly parked outside the side door of the study, and immediately sat a primary school student with a green velvet scarf. He was also looking towards him. Familiar.

The eyes of the two met, and Cui Xie called out first, "Thank you—"

Before he finished speaking, he remembered that there were many people here, so he ran to him on a horse and asked him excitedly: "Brother Xie, why did you come here? If you have a book you want, just tell me, and I will have someone deliver it to you. Just go, there are so many people here..."

Cui Yuan and Shopkeeper Ji were seeing Cui Xie at the door, and when they saw Xie Ying coming, they all came up to salute and asked them if they wanted to come into the yard to talk. Cui Xie pointed to the courtyard and said, "Brother Xie, would you like to go in and have a seat? Although there are some workers and craftsmen living in the courtyard, there are also places where you can chat quietly."

Xie Ying remembered the crowd of people in the store, shook her head and said: "You are busy, how can you tell me to be entertained. Besides, I am not the one to be entertained. If you think it is inappropriate to call me here for nothing, why not? Come with me for a walk, and I'll see how the horse rides."

OK.

Cui Xie agreed without hesitation, led the horse and turned around in the alley, and said to Cui Yuan and the shopkeeper Ji, "I went out with Xie Qianhu, you help me tell the family, I will not go back to eat at night. already."

Cui Yuan responded "Hey" and wanted to get some money for him to treat as a guest. Cui Xie waved his hand and said with a smile on his face: "Where can I use your money, Uncle Yuan, I'll take it myself. Go back, we're busy ahead, we'll be leaving now."

He usually seldom goes out. Today, he was catching up with the opening of the new store and worried about the business situation, so he took a look after school. He didn't expect to bump into Xie Qianhu and also come to visit his store. This is also fate. Usually he can't save time outside, but since he met him today, he simply went out to play, and Xie Qianhu paid a special visit to him.

After detouring out of the narrow alley and onto the main road, he tugged on the reins, turned around and smiled, "Where are we going?"

Xie Ying looked at the blue casual clothes on his body and the blue shirt of his prison student, feeling a little regretful, and replied: "Go to evacuate outside the city first. Tomorrow is Emperor Guan's birthday, and tonight there should be outside the temples of Emperor Guan. The rehearsal of the Hundred Operas for Advocating Excellence has started, let’s take a look around when we come back after relaxing.”

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