Chapter 433 Manuscript Fees: A New Source of Income (Part 1)
I took a deep breath and showed my fearless and green aura of not changing color without changing color. I really wanted to say a few words to support my courage. I don’t know what happened. When I saw my eldest sister, Bi Niang, I always felt a mess. Under the surface of a gentleman, the little heart was constantly stirring.
The third sister glanced at me, glanced at her elder sister, and then suddenly said, "Is it possible for my elder sister to hook up with my brother-in-law?" The words made my elder sister Bi Niang blush and raised her hand to make a gesture to beat her: "Okay, Runniang, I think you want to be beaten, you gossip little girl..."
The third sister crawled into the door with a chewy smile, and the footsteps gradually faded away. The only thing left was the stomach that was almost cramped, and I and my eldest sister Bi Niang, who were so embarrassed that she was standing on the steps of the yard gate.
"What? Just laugh if you want to laugh. Look at how hard you endured it." The eldest sister Bi Niang turned her head, bit her red lips, looked at me for a long time, until she saw it in my heart that Zhan Yan chuckled.
At this moment, I didn't have the pleasure of laughing. I coughed twice and wanted to say goodbye. At this time, my eldest sister Bi Niang suddenly said, "The third sister seems to fall in love with you as a brother-in-law."
"What?!" I stared at me, almost biting my tongue, holding a lantern, and stood stiffly in place. My eldest sister Bi Niang looked at the half-closed door, and seemed to wave her head with a headache: "Maybe I'm thinking it's bad, but..." She raised her head, moved forward slowly, and stood more than two feet away from me before she stopped her feet. The mature woman's breath came to her nose. Her jade-like cheeks seemed to be wrapped in a layer of transparent glaze under the light, with a shiny outside. Her eyes blinked gently, opening and closing. It seemed that she wanted to cut everything into two pieces.
"You are so beautiful." I swallowed for a long time and stood on the corner of the steps. After a long time, I put on such a sentence under Bi Niang's gaze. Bi Niang was slightly stunned. A charming blush ignited on her face, and her eyes closed and looked at me with a timid look. It seemed that she was blaming me for being inappropriate.
I wish I could slap myself. Why? I was full and I was overstuffed? I was teasing my sister-in-law? But then again, it was normal to praise people in normal times. But the time and place are not right now. I stood here with such a beautiful sister in the middle of the night. The ambiguity just now has not yet disappeared. Isn’t it a little bit more fuel to say this now?
"Well, I'm praising you." The sweat on my forehead was dripping. After a long time of grinding, I made my elder sister Bi Niang laugh. Then he sighed softly: "I heard the story of my brother-in-law today, Bi Niang felt indifferent and thought of my deceased husband. I don't know why."
"It's better to be mournful to my elder sister. An old saying goes: People cannot be resurrected by death, and they have the flesh and blood of two brother-in-law. I need your careful care and guidance from my elder sister." I comforted me with warm words.
"Hehe, yes, if it weren't for them, I'm afraid that I would have sacrificed my life and followed my husband. But I just couldn't let them go. In fact, today, Bi Niang just asked something to ask for it, and I hope my brother-in-law can agree."
I said with doubts: "What's wrong with my elder sister? Just say that, I will do my best to do everything in my ability."
"I hope that my sister-in-law will take these two children as disciples when they grow up, teach them some knowledge, and find a background in the future and will support themselves. I don't know my brother-in-law..." My eldest sister Bi Niang said a little embarrassedly for a long time before I realized it.
Accepting apprentices, well, this is nothing. Anyway, I have more students, and it’s nothing if I have two young people. But at least I have to wait until they are at the age of being at kindergarten or above, I don’t want to downgrade myself to a kindergarten aunt.
Seeing that I agreed, my elder sister Bi Niang was so happy that she didn't know what to do. She finally persuaded her to enter the mansion, "By the way, be careful, my girl seems to fall in love with your second brother-in-law." Just as I was about to turn around and leave, Wu Bi Niang suddenly turned around. This sentence scared me. Before I could ask clearly, Wu Bi Niang smiled sweetly and closed the door. The sound of her quick footsteps gradually faded away.
I finally let out a big sigh. Fortunately, Wu Bi Niang didn't pursue my rude affairs, but Wu Bi Niang's words really made me funny. How old is Wu Run Niang? It's just a twelve-year-old girl's house. I don't know what kind of love is love? I'm afraid it's about admiring my brother-in-law. Besides, people as funny as me don't like to lose their temper. Well, when facing beautiful girls, we have always been a gentleman. This is my principle of being a human being. Therefore, it's normal for Wu Run Niang to like to stick to me. Note that it's like it, not love.
After thinking about it this way, I felt relieved again. As for the words of the eldest sister of the Wu family, forget it, women's thoughts, especially women like Wu Biniang, I can't guess thoroughly. Why bother to guess? We still have a lot of work to do.
In early October of the 16th year of Zhenguan, two novels by the second man from Fangfu, "The Romance of the Gods" and "The Legend of the Immortals" were released simultaneously. For a moment, the Tang Dynasty set off a craze for storytelling, which was very popular. As for "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that had been reprinted many times, the circulation volume was far exceeding my expectations, and it was as high as nearly 200,000 copies. Not to mention me, even the shareholders who joined the shares were not shocked. The nearly 200,000 local "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" alone brought no less than 100,000 coins. In addition, the printing and shipment volume of hardcover, collector's edition, and pocket versions also earned nearly 100,000 coins, and there are still booksellers from far away waiting to order.
As for the two new books, the initial order volume alone was as high as 50,000 books. The printing library is now like a money printing machine, with money flowing into our pockets like flowing water, and Uncle Li also stared at his dividends and smashed his tongue. Unexpectedly, he could get so much profit every month with just one sentence. This is the private money collected from Uncle Li’s own treasury, so how could he be unhappy?
As for the papermaking workshop, this originally inconspicuous little thing makes several times more money than that of a printing library. Why? Everyone needs to use paper. Since the paper is improved, it has been divided into several types of paper suitable for various use occasions. The wisdom of the ancients is indeed not covered. Even toilet paper, such soft paper products, have become popular among dignitaries and wealthy families. Nonsense, using toilet paper is always cheaper than silk cloth, right? Besides, it makes people feel much more comfortable than using the disgusting thing in toilet chips. After all, this thing is a disposable consumable and low-priced, and almost everyone can afford it.
Moreover, with the efforts of all shareholders and the hint of Uncle Li, the papermaking workshop has already shown a trend of dissemination. However, we are still holding the patent rights tightly in our hands. Of course, it is precisely because of the emergence of papermaking workshops and the improvement of workmanship that at present, poor families no longer need to practice calligraphy on the sand table.
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All of this has made me gain great favor in the eyes of scholars, and some scholars who are interested in this have visited them with their free novels. The meaning is obvious, and they must have wanted to be famous. It is very good. Since they come, they will use it. Of course, I have given the corresponding royalties for each scholar, but some scholars are disdainful and think that I am using money to vulgar them.
For example, Wang Yifang, who was in front of him, was appointed as the military officer of the King of Jin Mansion. Li Zhi personally introduced a very famous scholar. He compiled some unique insights on Confucianism and wanted to give them a review to me and then publish them. But when I wanted to give him money, Wang Yifang felt that I was insulting his personality and was now glaring at me. Damn, what does this old boy mean? I am helping you.
Li Zhi also squatted aside with his head in his arms, and he felt a headache. The plague god he invited was making trouble in my house. If it were Li Zhi, I was afraid that this little kid might have fought for more royalties from me, but this guy was better than him, and he actually felt that I had insulted him.
What other gentlemen don't accept the food given by pity to me? But my face turned green, but it was hard to curse people in person. In addition, I also knew that Wang Yifang was a straight man. Not to mention me, even Li Zhi, the King of Jin, often gave him speechless, but he was right, so Li Zhi was both angry and helpless. It is said that he came to Chang'an when he was admitted to the Ming Dynasty and came to Chang'an. The other party called his father the magistrate of Yingshang County. He heard that his father was seriously ill and had to go day and night. At present, he could only walk. It was very difficult to rush, but he had no choice but to do so. After hearing this, Wang Yifang took off the horse he rode without saying a word and gave it to him. He left without telling the other party's name.
Chapter completed!