Of course, what attracted Zhou Yusheng the most was not the thatched cottage in this bookstore. After all, he is a scholar. No matter how bad his thatched cottage is, he cannot dislike it, right?

What made Zhou Yusheng feel the most satisfied was the books in this bookstore. People directly divided the imperial examination books aside, and each book was placed ten books outside. Especially the key book, it was placed in a row for everyone to use.

If you take the book, you don’t have to stand there to read it. You can find a table and sit and read it.

Because the bookstore has just opened not long ago, I know that there are not many people in this bookstore, and many locations in the bookstore are empty, so Zhou Yusheng can find the location just by looking for it.

As soon as he sat down, his classmates poked his arm and asked him to look next to him.

When Zhou Yusheng turned his head, he saw a scholar with patches. He was not someone else, but the poorest scholar in their academy - Ye Maosheng.

Zhou Yusheng had two brothers to support him, and he lived in the city, so Ye Maosheng was different. He came from the countryside, and it is said that their family also gathered the strength of his family to support him alone.

If it weren't for the accommodation provided by Mr. Ye Maosheng would have no books to read.

Zhou Yusheng walked over and said hello to him.

Ye Maosheng looked up and saw that it was him, and his face turned red in an instant: "Brother Zhou...Brother Zhou..."

"You're here to read books, too?"

"Well! There is carbon fire here..." Ye Maosheng admitted embarrassedly that he came here purely with the carbon fire here.

It was cold, his clothes were thin, and he had to complete so many of the assignments assigned by his teacher, and his hands were frozen, but it was different when he came here, there was carbon fire here.

Even if he couldn't bear to pay for the money for copying books, he could come here to "memorize". Anyway, there are books that the gentleman asked him to memorize. There are only two copper coins at a time, and he can read them for a day without going out.

"It seems that our goals are the same." Zhou Yusheng smiled. He pointed to his classmates and said that his classmates introduced him, otherwise he would not know when Jinling would have opened such a bookstore that could take advantage of the charcoal fire.

It's just a pity that he just found out today and didn't bring any food in, so he was afraid he wouldn't be able to last night.

But it doesn't matter. He has already taken advantage of it after staying for most of the day. He can again tomorrow...

After Zhou Yusheng finished speaking in a low voice, Ye Maosheng told him in a low voice how much he brought. If Zhou Yusheng didn't dislike him, he could borrow Zhou Yusheng two steamed buns.

"I originally wanted to be for supper..."

Zhou Yusheng: “…”

No, what time are you going to stay?

No, when is this bookstore closed?

...

Before Yao's bookstore became popular, it attracted the poor scholars living nearby.

Speaking of this, we have to say that the location of the mansion that the Yao family in Jinling chose for the Yao family in Beijing was a coincidence. There was a courtyard here for sale (that is, the Yao Mansion where Gu Qingling and the others currently live). Yao Deyi came to check it out and bought it immediately.

Although this place is not a prosperous area in Jinling, it is not far from there, and it is just a matter of walking a few streets.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that there is also an academy here, but this academy is a private academy and is not very famous.

Its students are mainly local gentry, and there may be a few poor scholars occasionally.

As for those who have power and momentum, they will not go here to study. Therefore, in the streets not far from the Yao family, some families cleaned up their yards and rented them to poor scholars.

In other words, the reading atmosphere here is much better than other places in Jinling. After all, there are academies here, unlike the fireworks alley on the other end of Jinling, tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk...

There are many noble people there, but most of them are playboys.

After Gu Qingling moved in, she was so quiet that she was blessed with geographical location.

"So, now those who come to study in the bookstore are all poor scholars?"

A few days after opening, Gu Qingling received a list of customers sent by Mo Shu. At this time, people did not have such a strong sense of privacy. She said that people who entered her bookstore had to register, so they just registered honestly, where they lived, what their name was, and age...

Gu Qingling glanced over and probably knew it in her heart.

"Yes, old lady." Mo Shu lowered his head and said respectfully, "It's getting colder today. The poor scholars are reluctant to use carbon at their homes. There is another Baishan Academy next to them. So when they heard that there was a bookstore with carbon fire nearby and that reading was very cheap, they ran to the store... "

Because the time is still very short and not everyone can’t afford carbon at home, so there are not many people coming to bookstores now, and there are only about ten people every day.

There are so many people who come to take advantage of the charcoal fire and don’t buy any books, which means...

A dozen people have 40 copper plates per day, and a basin of carbon fire is not enough. If Gu Qingling wants to continue doing this, she will be afraid of losing money this winter.

"No one buys books?"

"Yes, relatively few." Mo Shu explained that most of the students who come to the store are students from Baishan Academy. Everyone verbally told them, and they came.

Since this group of people are already studying in academy, they basically have all the books they need to use. Unless they get some more attractive books, it will be difficult to stimulate their desire to consume.

Zhou Yusheng, Ye Maosheng saw such a good book, don’t you want to buy it?

I thought, but I had no money.

And it’s a big deal to read books every day. At first glance, there are only 2 copper plates a day, but after a long period of time, after reading for a month or two, the money is enough for them to buy a book.

They would come here just to save money on carbon fire, and they really couldn't bear to spend extra money...

"I have seen it myself. Someone will end next year. It's just when I want to save money to prepare for the county examination, I don't have much lenient desire..." Mo Shu really wanted to remind the old lady that it is actually not a good habit to open Yao's bookstore at this time.

A good time to really open, you should choose to go to the county trial in February next year.

Once the county trial is over and the county government list is posted, it will inevitably stimulate many people to work hard, and then there will be more people buying books.

"It's okay, I just opened a bookstore at this time to do good deeds. I can still afford to spend the little carbon fire money..." What Gu Qingling didn't say was that she deliberately chose to open a bookstore at this time to accumulate fame.

In order to deal with the disasters of the Yao family in Jinling, Mr. Yao took the blame and ruined his reputation. Although it was spread to the capital, Emperor Mingguang specially issued an imperial edict to praise Mr. Yao for "destroying relatives for justice" and "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism", it still left people with the impression of "ruthlessness" and "digging his own ancestral grave". Gu Qingling would have to gain some fame for Mr. Yao.

It doesn’t matter to the aristocratic family and it has no impact on Mr. Yao, but Mr. Yao is a scholar and is about to take the imperial examination in the future. He is about to go on this path. This is so frightening that he will be in trouble.

If it weren't for the imperial edict of Emperor Mingguang, Mr. Yao would have almost not even had a quota for the county examination.

Compared to looking for people everywhere to promote Mr. Yao's reputation, or to donate porridge, or do good deeds due to incense, Gu Qingling feels that the few pots of carbon fire money spent in the bookstore are nothing.
Chapter completed!